u/FentmaxxerActual

Seen a lot of discourse online about how upcoming stricter emissions regulations (e.g. Euro 7) will mean the death of the manual transmission, but not necessarily non-hybridized automatics. For example, there are rumors that the next gen 911 powertrains will be PDK only because they can't get the manual to pass emissions.

Is there a technical reason behind this, or is it more of a "we can't justify the business case for updated tuning/testing"? Is it the longer periods off throttle between gear changes than you see in a dual clutch? I can't think of another reason, manuals are mechnically nearly identical to a dual clutch.