Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was around the middle of the last decade that Alan Macey realized just how bad things had gotten for the manual transmission.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shifting gears, the feel of the clutch underneath your hand. These mark the experience behind the wheel of a manual transmission ...

If you take a stroll through a crowded parking lot in any American city, you are likely looking at a sea of vehicles. The manual transmission, once the standard for nearly every car on the road, has ...

The "stick shift" gets its name from its original appearance of a long, thin selector rod that could be grabbed and then ...

The 2026 Toyota Tacoma is America's last manual pickup truck. Learn about its Intelligent Manual Transmission features and ...

Despite car enthusiasts’ best efforts, the manual transmission’s days are numbered. Blame it on electrification, future autonomous technologies, or the fact that kids these days just don’t care about ...

Leaning how to drive for the first time isn’t always pretty. How did you learn? Automatic or stick shift? Is one easier than the other? We went back to drivers ed to find out. “What we believe if that ...

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Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Japanese automaker is reportedly working on a manual transmission for electric cars. Will the stick-obsessed ...

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 ...

Faith Bottum writes of a few reasons to commend a stick shift (“The Dying Art of Driving a Stick Shift,” op-ed, March 28), such as lower cost and less theft, largely because there are few people left ...