Originally Posted by
Mark
I believe Canada carried the manual option one year longer.
Usually, or typically, in order to cut off a vendor either from one part to switch to another, or just one part completely, the cutoff point is DIFFICULT to get exactly straight on an assembly line ... without scrap. It can be done accurately and easily WITH scrap. But it is much more efficient to NOT have to scrap.
So, it is very easy to cut off the U.S.A. vehicles from receiving a manual transmission by a date, and if there are some number, like 168 manual transmissions leftover that the vendor has remaining, well "let's just throw those into Canadian destination vehicles to get rid of them."
Not saying that's how it went. Just saying, that's how it could have went. That's fairly typical.
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