Last US Full/Medium sized Wagons with man.trans

What I meant to ask in my previous post regarding last US wagons with man,trans. is the last full/medium sized wagons made.
It's obvious compact/subcompact wagons were offered with man.trans.
So,what year was the last rear wheel drive large wagon made with a man.trans.?

 

Hmmm.,well,as I said before,the last Ford full size wagon with the manual transmission was the 1972 Ford when supplied with the six-cylinder engine. Both these items were discontinued for '73.

 

Base transmission in the 1974 Malibu wagon was a three speed manual. It was gone in 1975.

 

Wait! Breaking news. The manual trans came back in the late 1970s and was available as late as 1981 in the Malibu wagon with V6 engine.

 

Now that I think about it, I do remember that manual transmissions made a limited comeback in the 1970s in response to the gas crises. Of course, the offering of a manual trans with the smallest engine was simply a marketing ruse to be able to claim the best possible gas mileage on a powertrain configuration that few people actually purchased. Once lockup torque converters and overdrive automatics were introduced in the early 1980s, the need to offer the manual trans to increase mileage went away as the automatics became just as good.

 

GM's full size cars stopped using manual transmissions in December of 1970 for the 1971 model year cars (only a handful of the full size cars had the option, maybe no wagons). Last manual GM big wagon I've seen is a 1970 model with a 3 on the tree (the green one in NJ that keeps coming up for sale).
I think the intermediate car line could get a manual through 1974-1975, but am not sure and don't have literature to back it up.

 

1981, per the Chevy brochure I posted in Post #4, above.

 

I still say the last manual transmission US made wagon was the Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon, not big enough?
The Cadillac may be the the highest horsepower and fastest manually shifted US made production wagon ever too.
It's no compact, and it's easily as big as a 1981 Malibu.

 

I agree with you completely. The 2014 CTS-V wagon had a 113" wheelbase. That's 5" longer than the Malibu and within 3" of the 1977-1996 B-body wagons. At 4300 lbs, the CTS-V is at least 700 lbs heavier than the 'bu.

 

Of course, GM probably sold more 3 spd 81 Malibus than manual trans CTS-V wagons...