The invention provides a manual and automatic dual-purpose pantograph for motor vehicle current collection. The pantograph mainly solves the technical problems that maintenance cost is high and an overhead line system is likely to be pulled broken during a fault when power is externally supplied to an existing rail transit vehicle. According to the technical scheme, the manual and automatic dual-purpose pantograph is characterized by comprising a base assembly (5), supporting arms, a lifting arm, a lifting power device (4), a spring assembly (8) and pantograph head assemblies (10), and insulators B (3) are arranged at the lower portion of the base assembly (5); the lifting power device (4) is connected with the lower portion of a push rod (7); sliding boards (11) are arranged on the outer sides of the tops of the pantograph head assemblies (10) respectively; and one end of the spring assembly (8) is installed on the side, opposite to one hinged lower supporting rod (6), of the base assembly (5), and a spring end (14) arranged at the other end of the spring assembly (8) is connected with the corresponding lower supporting rod (6). The manual and automatic dual-purpose pantograph is widely applied to current collection of various rail transit buses, non-rail-transit buses, transport trucks and other electric drive vehicles.