上汽大众决定将旗下的大众汽车变速器（上海）公司于2023年3月正式停产。请看本报昨日的报道：

A manual transmission plant owned by Volkswagen AG’s joint venture with SAIC Motors will close in March next year, the carmaker said Friday.

The news was communicated to staff last week in a letter published in domestic media, marking the latest step in the joint venture’s winding down of production of manual cars because Chinese customers favor automatic vehicles.

报道中的manual car指“手动挡汽车”，即需要人工操作换挡的汽车，与之相对的是automatic car (自动挡汽车)。例如：

A manual car uses a stick shift and a clutch pedal to change gears in order to speed up or slow down.

手动挡汽车使用手拨操纵杆和脚踩离合器换挡加速或者减速。