"The reason that some manual transmission vehicles may have worse mileage than automatics could be because some manual transmissions have shorter gear ratios compared to the automatics because they are biased towards performance rather than economy.
In some situations manuals have the same or higher MSRP, I am guessing, due to economies of scale."
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