Pickup truck with manual transmission?

My truck is one o' them TOY-oh-ter dohickies with a gas engine (Tacoma, 2007, XRunner model). Xrunners only came with manuals, not sure this is still the case. My needs are likely different than yours.

Manuals are on the way out, across all models, much to my personal chagrin. Going the way of the buggy whip and United States Postal Service, looks-like. Last I heard, 20 years ago, manuals on larger diesels were the only way to go for trucks used for snow plowing. If nothing current is available, may need to go used.

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Pickup truck with manual transmission?

I am looking to buy a pickup truck, with a Diesel engine as a MUST HAVE, not the problem, the problem i come across is that not a single truck comes with a manual transmission (sans the Toyota dohicky and some other non-american contraption). Am i just looking in the wrong places? (i also am waist...

That depends how old of a truck you are looking at.

If you want anything of recent vintage, forget it. Who wants to pull a big load with a manual trans? As much as my friend like rowing gears on occasion, he don't want to pull a bus with a manual trans F250.

Anyway, manual is pretty much out and may have to be factory order these days. It doesn't make financial sense to make manual trans and certify for emissions via the EPA when autos in those diesel trucks are very good now and at least 99.44% of the driving population can do just fine with an auto trans.

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