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 ...
With many of the best driver's cars being manuals and dedicated three-pedal driving schools all over the country, gearheads ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Gorzelany is a veteran automotive journalist. Like roll-up windows and cigarette lighters, manual transmissions are a dying ...
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 ...
This unusual arrangement was thanks to a company called the Stick Shift Driving Academy. The online service pairs people who want to learn how to drive a stick shift with people who have a car with a ...
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 ...
The TREMEC Stick Shift Shootout began in 2016, thanks to Brent McCoy, as an impromptu showdown for the manual transmission-equipped competitors. It takes place on Friday and the rules are super simple ...