Originally Posted by
Cossie.jack
Yea does make sense and suppose your right when you look at it that way. Thanks for that, learn something new every day!

no worries,
but like I said in my 1st post, when you get to prestige brands the opposite might be true, making your 1st thought correct, in part.
EG, if a Mercedes Benz SLS is usually fitted with a semi-auto flappy paddle shift gearbox as standard, but the manual gearbox was an option, the manual version would be rarer and therefore more expensive
(that's if there is a manual version) as it would have had to be a special order
with prestige brands there more likely to have automatic than manual gearboxes......