Years passed with car makers pushing one clear path ahead – packed with self-shifting transmissions, better fuel use, because onboard tech kept getting sharper, taking charge of nearly everything ...

Just 4 percent of new cars sold in the U.S. today come with manual transmissions. But 90 percent of worthwhile cars come with a stick shift (okay, that's an unofficial stat). The decline of the true ...

These days, cars use a lot of different mechanisms and designs for changing gears, but did you know that the first ...

MINNEAPOLIS — I spent part of Halloween hanging out in a cemetery. I wasn’t there to commune with the dead. Instead, I was getting reacquainted with the dying art of driving a stick shift car. In ...

Modern automatics have made the old manual-versus-automatic argument much harder. Dual-clutch gearboxes, quick torque-converter automatics, launch control, and smarter shift programming now beat most ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

I spent part of Halloween hanging out in a cemetery. I wasn’t there to commune with the dead. Instead, I was getting reacquainted with the dying art of driving a stick shift car. In Roselawn Cemetery ...

As automakers move toward efficiency and convenience, another round of manual transmissions bites the dust. Here are the models that won’t offer a stick shift in 2025. The manual transmission ...