Traffic is stressful in any car, but a manual transmission adds clutch work, gear changes, and a different kind of pressure ...

Learning how to drive a manual transmission is a great idea for drivers, young and old. Not only are they usually fun, but you never know when the skill will come in handy. In a world dominated by ...

There's a reason many drivers swear by manuals. The skills you pick up go beyond gears and can change how you handle traffic ...

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 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 ...

Thanks to you, readers of Hagerty Media and automotive enthusiast extraordinaires, we received a fantastic number of truly wonderful stories of how “we” learned how to drive a manual transmission. Be ...

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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 ...