A car doesn’t necessarily need to have a manual transmission to be fun to drive, but an otherwise-boring car can feel a lot more exciting with a stick shift. Shifting on your own can make you feel ...

There are different arguments that can be made both for and against automatic and manual vehicle transmissions. Manual transmissions offer more nuanced control and an opportunity to better optimize ...

CARS.COM — Vehicles with an automatic transmission might not have a clutch and a stick shift, but they can still have trouble shifting. At times, drivers may have trouble getting the car out of Park ...

It’s a warm summer evening and all the car guys are out on the town. Through the night air carries the sound of a sweet-running small-block crisply hitting that wide-open-throttle 1-2 shift. You ...

In a world dominated by continuously variable transmissions (CVTs), dual-clutch transmissions (DCTs), and sophisticated ...

In the age of cars with the constant buzzing of automation and digital convenience, the manual transmission, which has been a ...

The automatic transmissions found in many modern vehicles are marvels of engineering. They rely on a huge number of internal parts, like clutch packs, various gears, solenoids, a valve body, hydraulic ...

Knowing how to drive a car equipped with a manual transmission is more important than it might seem. Even if your daily driver is automatic, you may get stuck in a foreign country renting a car from a ...

Unlike an automatic transmission that switches gears depending on the vehicle's speed, a manual transmission requires the driver to make the change with the stick shift. For drivers new to manual ...

Engineers are just wizards with college degrees. No, I take that back, they're powers are stronger than mere magic. I don't care what spells Harry Potter knows; nothing in his wizarding world is as ...