Is a manual car more economical than automatic transmission?
For your first question, manual transmissions are more economical than automatic transmission. Thats a fact already, whether how you drive on a manual transmission, still they are more economical. For your next question, there is a lot of manual cars in italy because a manual transmission coz less than automatic transmission. Of course people will choose a less expensive ones over the other and also again the fact that manual transmission is more economical than automatic transmission. Hope this help!