It goes beyond the fact that the base 'Stang hasn't had a manual transmission since 2023, Ford's chief Mustang engineer said.

Sometimes, I forget to shift out of the manual mode and find myself traveling faster than I should in a lower gear, like 50 ...

A computer also controls the transmission now, so it won’t even let you downshift into a gear if you’re going too fast for that gear. And on a lot of cars with automatic transmissions and manual shift ...