These automakers—including Porsche, BMW, Mazda, Honda, and more—are saving the manuals, one performance car at a time.

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For instance, Subaru’s CVT, dubbed Lineartronic, does this in models such as the WRX, enabling the transmission to swap between eight ratios in a manner that simulates an eight-speed gearbox.