Funny. All but one of my cars had standard transmissions and I thought they were cheap. None of them ever presumed to tell me when to shift -- you just knew, from speed, grade, and engine sound. My '05 PT Cruiser has a stick, too, but it's the first car with a tach -- not that I need a tach for shifting guidance, but it's handy to confirm that I'm really in 5th.
A light or tone telling me to shift would become so irritating so quickly that I'd remove the bulb or even snip the wire.
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Yale
With all this manual labor, I may not make it out of retirement alive.
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