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New cars equipped with manual transmissions become more and more economically unjustified areas of expenditures, since annual sales figures for manuals lag significantly behind automatics and major automakers, such as Toyota, start having doubts about the competitiveness of manuals vs. automatics. However, Mazda's Miata still shows a decent sales statistcs.

Mazda has recently reported that the latest Mazda 6 model won't have a manual transmission option because of a sluggish demand for manuals among customers in the US.

Chrysler has recently started the recall campaign of Fiat Spider 124 cars equipped with Aisin RWD automatic transmissions. The recall list will include approx. 9,000 cars produced from 2017 to 2019. The problem is that the recalled cars can suddenly shift down without any notifications because of issues with the TCM.

Mazda Miata is a legendary roadster model which has always been known for its reliability, however, Mazda has recently reported about the recall of its MX-5 Miata due to the transmission issue.