When the Cars.com editorial team created National Stick Shift Day in 2018, we didn’t necessarily anticipate it actually catching on (though we really, really hoped it would). Nevertheless, in honor of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. Do you know of any driving schools that teach on a standard transmission for an adult? I will be allowed to get an Audi TT if my wife learns how to drive stick. — E.W., Chicago A. We think you have ...

Turns out, there's a 100 percent effective way to teach people to drive a stick shift. I first heard it several years ago from the sainted Tappet Brothers, and I've taught maybe 25 or 30 people to ...