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 ...

Image Credit: Tuner tom - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0/Wiki Commons. A truly fast manual car delivers a kind of satisfaction that a stopwatch can only partly explain. The number still matters, but so does ...

Only a tiny fraction of new cars in the U.S. are sold with a manual transmission, so there's no need to learn to drive stick in 2026. Rather, it's something you do because you want to. Learning to ...

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 ...

In Europe, this clientele is responsible for a good deal of the moaning about manual transmission’s demise. And perhaps nowhere is it louder than in Germany, the home of Porsche, BMW, Volkswagen and ...

Stick-shift loyalists aren’t taking the electric-car revolution lying down. Following a decadeslong decline, three-pedaled vehicles are experiencing a modest but real resurgence. Manuals accounted for ...