Once upon a time, being able to handle a clutch was an essential part of driver’s ed. In fact, the automobile was more than 40 years old before the first commercially available automatic (the ...

Renting a car for a month in Portugal seemed like a smart financial decision—until I realized the roads were narrow, the ...

The manual transmission is starting to go the way of the dodo, although there are still several new cars, trucks, and SUVs you can buy that have a stick shift — and, of course, used options abound.

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

When most people learn to drive a manual transmission, they're worried about stalling the engine at a traffic light. When I learned how to drive a manual, an instructor was telling me over a ...

When Ahmed Raza bought his stick-shift car just a few years ago, he’d never before driven one. He figured out the basics right then and there, with the benefit of a parking lot and some patience, and ...

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Scott wants to get a car with a manual transmission before everything goes electric. He also wants his kids to have the skill of operating a clutch. It doesn't need to be fancy, but he does want ...

If you are often driving a manual transmission car, you've probably had instances where you skipped from first to third gear or even went from fifth gear down to third gear. It seems faster and more ...

Conventional cars with manual gearboxes will become off limits to future generations of drivers. Why is that so? Because over the last two decades or so, interest in automatic cars has spiked, and it ...