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Ricky Bobby · #3 07-28-2014, 09:35 AM

First of all, I love Archer! So handsome!

There is a manual transmission registry thread I started in late 2011 in case you do get to join "the club", but as you've found, finding the "right one" will take time, in my case it took me 6 months and I was lucky to find it within an hour.

My wish list at the time was no Silver, under 80-90k miles, Sport Package, and under 17k. I would have preffered a facelift so I could have the 6th cog on the freeway, and the updated front end, but it wasn't required.

I ended up with an '03 Topaz, 59k miles with Sport Package and EHCII, for just over 15k. Little more than I wanted to pay at the time but as you'll find, these aren't the type of X's that you can just "go find another one", so the pricing is in the hands of the seller for the most part.

You most likely will not find one locally (unless you are extremely lucky like me) so plan on a 1 way plane ticket, an out of state PPI done, or a decent road trip with Archer and your significant other to find the right one.

Keep your search nationwide, cars.com/autotrader, search the key word "manual" and be aware that you actually have to physically see the stick in the pictures, most of these idiots putting listings up put it in the description that it is a Manual but it is not correct.

If you're lucky you may have 5-10 choices at any given time on those websites, could be less. But us manual X5 guys tend to have spent a while to find ours, and most of us tend to keep them, so that's why its not as easy to find.

Good luck, as a manual owner I'm here to help

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