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Popular consensus suggests that the H-pattern manual transmission’s days are numbered. Even hardcore sports cars are dropping manuals from their options list in the name of performance, efficiency and customer demand, so they’re even rarer again in the realm of family SUVs.
The Kia Sorento is one of the few large SUVs to still offer a manual alternative, and paired with all-wheel drive and the turbodiesel drivetrain, it’s a whole lot of seven-seat SUV for its $39,990 list price.