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"The average stick-shift vehicle gets 17% to 18% better gas mileage than an automatic," says Shenhar of Consumer Reports (quoted by Stacey Bradford of SmartMoney.com). [This statistic may not be based on comparably-sized vehicles, but if not, there may still be a sizable energy savings for comparably-sized vehicles.]
Will Driscoll, Dec 02 2003
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Modern, computer controllet CVTs improves mileage even more.
same goes for hybrid gas/electric cars like Toyota Prius. And these are by definition "automatic" one pedal for go, one pedal to stop. The simple combustion engine manual/auto debate is lagging the available technology.
A better alternative may be to cycle, walk for short journies, use teh phone, or internet, etc. rather than the car. saves much more fuel!