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 ...

Can driving a car benefit your brain? Yes, if it has a manual transmission. That’s the surprising result of research at Japan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was around the middle of the last decade that Alan Macey realized just how bad things had gotten for the manual transmission.

Learning to drive a stick shift while being screamed at by a parent used to be a rite of passage for America’s youth, but times have changed. Studies have shown fewer and fewer people are bothering to ...

When I first sat behind the wheel of an EV, I noticed something missing: the clutch and the gear stick. The reason behind this is simple. EVs don’t have a gearbox. They’re automatic. So instead of a ...

According to the 2024 EPA Automotive Trends report, nearly 35% of all new vehicle models sold in 1980 were equipped with a manual transmission — but for 2024, that number has shrunk to below 1%. Yet ...

Rezvani developed a classic six-speed gated H-pattern quadrant with the iconic ball knob for Ferrari, Lamborghini, and ...

Manual gear shifts can be confusing. That confusion isn't just reserved for those who usually drive automatic cars, either. Sometimes, gearboxes can also have unexpected additions far beyond the ...

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to learn that these are not the best of times for the manual gearbox. Over the last couple decades, automatic transmissions — once considered the inferior ...