I live on the east coast of Vancouver Island at about the half way point. The Micra has always been a huge seller in in this area as there are no factories or industry and many people have modest incomes. In the early days when other dealers did not bother ordering the manual base model our dealer did and there were very few times when there were not a few on the lot. I almost always see one or tow on my 7 km trip to town and one time at a 4 way stop there were 3 of us waiting our turn to go.