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 ...

For me, it was always the manual transmission. Growing up during the 1990s, both mom and dad drove a car with a stick. Actually, come to think of it, that was also the case for my grandparents, as ...

Modern drivers are faced with several options when deciding upon their ideal vehicle. These include gas or electric power, its drivetrain — be it a front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive, or four-wheel ...

In AMTs, gear shifts are performed by the shift actuator, which changes gears based on signals sent by the transmission ...

A manual transmission uses a stick to shift gears and a third pedal to operate the clutch. Current trends show that manual gear shifting is rapidly becoming obsolete. For select sports cars and ...

While stick-shift cars aren't in vogue anymore, with automatic shifters being the industry standard, there are still plenty of older and custom rides out there with manual transmissions. As long as ...

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 ...

I love manual transmissions. I grew up driving with a stick. I still own one as my technical “daily driver,” even though it’s seldom driven daily while I’m testing cars. But each year, the list of ...

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