Just 4 percent of new cars sold in the U.S. today come with manual transmissions. But 90 percent of worthwhile cars come with a stick shift (okay, that's an unofficial stat). The decline of the true ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shifting gears, the feel of the clutch underneath your hand. These mark the experience behind the wheel of a manual transmission ...

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 ...

Driving a manual transmission has become something of a dying art. Not long ago, most people learned how to drive a stick shift before driving automatic. But as fewer new cars are built with manual ...

There's a long-running debate among drivers about whether those who learned on a manual transmission are genuinely more skilled behind the wheel. It's a question that tends to stir up strong opinions; ...

Learning to drive a car with a manual transmission used to be something akin to a right of passage. Over time, cars sold in the States became more Americanized, ditching the third pedal in favor of ...

I've been driving since I was 16, but because I hail from Australia, a country with huge highways and giant commuting times (though not as many kangaroos on the road as you'd imagine), I learned to ...

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Do you own, or plan to own, a stick shift car? If you’ve ever gotten behind the wheel of one of these types of vehicles, you know that there’s a certain degree of finesse required to operate them. You ...

Driving stick is a vanishing art. Everyone, seemingly, learns to drive on an automatic transmission and then never picks up the skills need to operate a manual. Which is a shame, as there's no better ...