re: CNN column: Opinion: The long overdue death of the stick shift car

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Bring it back with hand-cranked windows, manual locks, cloth seats, a radio that’s simply a USB dock + 3.5mm out in a single cab truck for around $15-20K, and I’ll run that truck to 200,000 miles making it very uneconomical to continue production.

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Minus the aux port (or whatever) and the single cab (it has half doors) you just describe my everyday truck. A 2012 Nissan Frontier. It has 260k on the odometer and though the check engine light has been on for about 100k, it is reliable and runs great