On: How America lost its love for the stick shift

[peeters]

Just a note on that, most premium manual models come with hill assist these days. Automatically applies the brake while you accelerate from a stop.

[blattimwind → peeters]

Premium is relative. By that standard, a VW Golf is premium. (Arguably you can nowadays get it with options that were very much premium not that long ago)

[peeters → blattimwind]

I said most premium models have hill assist, not that all models with hill assist are premium.