Yes, we still get quite a few manual options across manufacturers over here but that's on the decline as well. Especially the more powerful and/or luxurious cars now only have automatics.
Where did you get a 6MT with AWD and left seat drive? Diesel! Which market do they sell it? I want to get the bits from there to turn the ones in US to Manual AWD
Tourette TV after 18 months of problems only in cold weather Mazda had to replace entire navigation system, radio and sd card. When the weather was above 30 degrees I never had a problem. Mazda knows about this problem..tech told me it should be a recall.
Tourette TV in cold weather the screen would say loading until you drove approximately 20 miles with the heater on high...then it would load. In warm weather it loaded instantly.