Cars With Manual Transmissions

Car and Driver, MotorTrend, Motor1, and US News publish manual-transmission roundups annually, but they go stale. We update this registry when manufacturers confirm new model years or change available trims. If you see an error, email us.

Quick facts

The data

Who actually buys the stick

The model count keeps shrinking. On the cars that still offer one, take rates run from 22% to 90%. Motor1 surveys every automaker annually; these are the 2025-sales figures, the share of each model's buyers who chose the manual where it was offered.

The Civic Si and Type R are manual-only, so their take rate is definitionally 100%; manuals were 6% of all Civic sales. Ford, Jeep, and Mazda (for the Mazda3) declined to provide figures.

One caveat baked into every number: take rates measure how cars are sold, not just what buyers want. Subaru lets buyers order a BRZ to spec; Toyota allocates GR86 inventory to dealers, and you take what arrives. That distribution difference explains much of the 38-point gap between two cars that are mechanically twins.

Current models (2026)

Sports and performance

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Every gearbox below is a 6-speed unless the notes say otherwise.

Sedans and hatchbacks

Mazda 3 / AxelaChanokchon (CC BY-SA 4.0) / CC BY-SA 4.0

Trucks and SUVs

Toyota TacomaBull-Doser (Public domain) / Public domainJeep WranglerWikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 / CC BY 2.0Ford BroncoSsmIntrigue (CC BY-SA 4.0) / CC BY-SA 4.0

Budget and entry

Empty for 2026. The last budget manual, the Nissan Versa S 5-speed, ended with the 2025 model year; it lives in the discontinued table below.

Recently discontinued (2024–2025)

Volkswagen GolfWikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0Mini CooperCalreyn88 (CC BY-SA 4.0) / CC BY-SA 4.0Kia ForteMercurySable99 (CC BY-SA 4.0) / CC BY-SA 4.0Jeep GladiatorKevauto (CC BY-SA 4.0) / CC BY-SA 4.0Chevrolet CamaroWikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY-SA 4.0Porsche 718多多123 (CC BY 4.0) / CC BY 4.0Nissan VersaKevauto (CC BY-SA 4.0) / CC BY-SA 4.0

The Mitsubishi Mirage dropped its 5-speed after the 2022 model year and ended production in 2025, putting it outside this registry's window. The Kia Forte GT was the last manual compact sport sedan under $30,000.

With the Versa gone, no US buyer can get a new manual under $20,000 for 2026, and nothing manual starts below $30,000. The bottom of the ladder: Honda Civic Si ($31,495), Mazda MX-5 Miata Sport ($31,665), Toyota GR86 ($32,395), Mazda3 2.5 S Premium hatch ($32,685). A manual Tacoma costs more than the truck's $32,445 base MSRP, because the stick requires the Double Cab, 4WD, 5-foot-bed configuration. Prices on this page include destination charges unless noted.

Why this list exists

The automatic is quicker, smoother, and easier in traffic. Most buyers know this and choose accordingly. The minority who buy the manual pick their own gears and work their own clutch on every shift. They want it badly enough to special-order it. This registry is for them.

Car manufacturers do not publish a single consolidated document of which trims have a manual transmission. The information lives in PDF spec sheets, configurator walkthroughs, and press releases. The annual magazine roundups are useful, but they date quickly: a model dropped in January and a model added in March both change the count, and the annual publication cycle misses both.

We update this registry when we confirm a change, not on a calendar schedule. The date at the top of the page marks the last review.

Methodology

We include a model if a US buyer can order it new with a manual transmission for 2024, 2025, or 2026. We mark a model as dropped when the manufacturer confirms the manual is no longer available in the US configurator for the upcoming model year. If a model is rumored to be dropping but the manufacturer hasn't confirmed it, the caveat column says so.

The 26 is a model count, not a trim count. We count the Porsche 911 and 718 as separate models, but treat the MX-5 soft top and RF as one model, the 718 Cayman and Boxster as one, and the 911 Carrera T and GT3 as one, because those are bodystyle or trim variations of the same car.

Peer counts differ by methodology, not by facts. Motor1 says "more than 25" for 2026; GearJunkie counts 29, four of which are seven-figure exotics. Our 26 excludes exotics (see below) and moves models that ended with 2025 (the 718 and Versa) to the discontinued table rather than the current one.

A short history

The manual predates the automatic by decades. The 1891 Panhard et Levassor ran a three-speed sliding-mesh gearbox, Cadillac introduced synchromesh in 1929, and the 1952 Porsche 356 was the first car with synchromesh on every forward gear. The first 7-speed manual arrived in the 2012 Porsche 911. In 2008, three quarters of Western European cars still had manuals. Car and Driver launched Save the Manuals in July 2010, citing the new Ferrari 458 Italia as one trigger: it arrived with no three-pedal option.

Heard on the pods

Every car in this registry has an episode trail on Car Curious, built from our podcast index. Start with the manuals the shows keep coming back to: the Porsche 911, BMW M3, Ford Mustang, Mazda MX-5 Miata, Toyota Supra, Porsche Cayman, and Subaru WRX. Each page lists the episodes where hosts actually talk about the car.

Video canon

Manual-transmission videos from YouTube: annual survivor counts, decline retrospectives, and Save the Manuals entries. You can also watch the full collection in our YouTube Playlist.

2024 Survivor List

Kirk Kreifels / Save the Manuals

Save the Manuals! (2010)

Car and Driver

Where Did All the Manual Transmissions Go?!

Donut (WheelHouse)

The Strange Death of the Manual Transmission

Bart's Car Stories

Save The Manuals! BMW M3 vs Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing

Top Gear (YouTube)

Save the Manuals: 2024 Mazda3 Stick Shift

Brian Makse

The community

The manual has a congregation, not just a registry. Anti-Automatic is a manual-enthusiast community hundreds of thousands strong, with merch, a newsletter, and a manifesto that opens by conceding you're outnumbered and outperformed, then explains why that isn't the point.

And if you want in but never learned, that's fixable: instructors like Brooklyn's Drive Stick Shift teach three-pedal confidence one lesson at a time, and stick-shift driving schools operate in most metros.

For buying, selling, or discovering three-pedal cars, Built for Backroads is a driver-focused private-seller marketplace that features vetted listings of manual-transmission cars, where listing your own car is free.

Exotics and low-volume cars

Three low-volume cars outside the US mass market also offer manuals. The Pagani Utopia has a 7-speed. The Hennessey Venom F5 has a gated 6-speed. The Koenigsegg CC850 is the asterisk: its clutch pedal and gated shifter drive a simulated 6-speed mode on the 9-speed Light Speed Transmission, not a fixed mechanical gearbox. We excluded all three from the main tables because they don't move through US dealer networks the way a Miata or Wrangler does.

Credits

Data sources: Car and Driver (Jan 2026), MotorTrend (Mar 2026), Motor1 annual manual-car census (2024, 2025, 2026), Motor1 manual take-rate survey (Jan 2026), US News (Jun 2025), Carfax (Mar 2026), Wikipedia (transmission history), manufacturer press releases and US configurator data. Compiled by Car Curious.