Manual transmissions have been fading from new pickup trucks for years, but 2026 marks a sharper turning point. With rivals ...

Manual transmissions teach higher levels of car control, "mechanical sympathy" with your car, multitasking brain power, and ...

Manual transmissions have quietly become a niche skill, yet the drivers who still use them tend to be more attentive, more ...

Shifting gears, the feel of the clutch underneath your hand. These mark the experience behind the wheel of a manual transmission car — now a rare breed in the U.S. Though the American auto industry ...

Learn how an outdated skill might help you to take advantage of this clever money-saving hack the next time you rent a car to ...

Manual gearboxes may be dying elsewhere, but this new patent shows one carmaker still wants to make them smarter and harder ...

Manual take-rate of 0.9% estimated for the entire industry in the first-half of 2022 (2017 Chevrolet Camaro SS pictured above). Asian brands are most committed to manuals. BMW might sell more ...

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 ...

Over the years, Ford Motor Co (NYSE:F) has filed plenty of patents. A patent filed several years ago and recently published will likely be a big talking point for the electric vehicle sector. What ...

The Ford Bronco's seven-speed manual gearbox has a cool party trick: a single crawler gear, combined with the normal ratios.

If avocados can get a national holiday, so can stick shifts. In 2018, Cars.com dubbed July 16 as National Stick Shift Day, a time to pay homage to the joys of short throws and working all the pedals.