New Ferrari "Manual Transmission"...

As a percentage of sales, very few people buy them. With few selling, design and R&D costs are HUGE on a per unit basis. This makes it cost prohibitive.

 

Porsche's 911 sales are 30% manuals in the US, there's huge demand here. They've said numerous times they'll keep making them if people keep wanting them, and they/we do.

 

Funny guy. You mean people actually drive these cars?

 

Not a chance, those days are long gone, never to return. Thats why you see F430 , F355 ,360 550 , 599 manuals and whichever going for insane prices . Like the Op said, no one wants to shift gears, not unless theres those paddles hanging from the steering wheel, with that being said, those drivers most likely would not even know how to work a 3 peddle car. Im glad Porsche is still in the game, even offering a 4s with a 7 speed and 3 peddles . Im now ok with trying to afford a 488 GTB at some point, I love the car so much, and with the 328 still under my tutelage , I will be fine with left foot braking and full throttle upshifts , its a nice dream to have at 57 , now if I could just stop buying motorcycles . lol

Thank you

 

Sadly it will never happen.

They'd rather make the easy $$$ selling bloated SUV's targeted at the wives of orthodontists so they can one up the Urus mom's in the private school car line.

 

This will never happen, and in the incredibly unlikely event that it did the Roma is the last car they'd fit with a manual gearbox. I'd wager that few Roma buyers would even know how to drive it, and even fewer would want to.
As long as the trend towards GT cars and SUVs- as opposed to real sports cars- continues, neither Ferrari nor any other low-volume carmaker will offer a manual transmission. Sad, but true . . .

 

When they offered it on brand new California they only sold THREE UNITS total worldwide
Hence no more offerings plus F8 is way too fast for a manual

 

No cost option

 

Ask why they don´t build manual gearboxes anymore to those who didn´t buy manual 599 and 430 while they still offered them. Hard to find those cars now because few were sold back then. Those who want performance will buy a semi-auto because it´s faster, and those who want a GT cruiser would buy it too because it´s more comfortable. That leaves a small market of "purists" in the middle.

Although I suppose that at some point they´ll make another manual, as a "Icona" car, a very rare limited edition or something like that: it´s easy to find a small group of collectors willing to pay whatever for a rarity.

 

Those would be "rich purists".

A manual Ferrari now would be necessarily a very expensive car: niche market, and they´d need to redo a lot of the base car.

 

I keep hearing they don't make them because very few were sold. This is true but also many accounts here of people trying to order them and being dissuaded. (or told, sure but you can wait a couple years for it if you get one at all).

So more like self fulfilling prophecy.

And no car is too fast for a manual trans.

 

They could also offer leaf springs, drum brakes and un-powered steering
Qualifying an outdated technology as "pure" is beyond me.
I think there are misconceptions due to the North American automotive industry, equating the DCT with the former sluggish torque converters that have been ubiquitous for years there, and have provided a terrible solution to encourage lazy drivers (and, worse than that, have been precluding other choices for decades).
In Europe the situation has been different, most cars have had manual transmissions until the recent spread of hybrids, so it's easier to recognize the DCT has a real advance.

 

People who like manual transmission are Not denying that DCT is more advanced - they just prefer the manual experience

 

For me it's just something of the past - I like it in my 550 but think it's out of place in a new car (and I do not miss it in the 488).

 

I’d rather have an engine that actually makes noise over a manual transmission. That would be a nice change

 

can't imagine shifting my own gears at 8k rpm, constantly....I am so over with the manual.

 

How's that manual trans going to work with an electric only car? It is likely they all will be all electric way too soon.