Manual transmissions have quietly become a niche skill, yet the drivers who still use them tend to be more attentive, more ...

Automatic transmissions make cars easier to drive, and modern ones are much improved. Yet manuals teach skills you can't get ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once a must-have for motoring purists, vehicles with manual transmissions are now an endangered class, even among many high-performance models — we’re looking at you, Chevy Corvette. Nowadays, people ...

Scott wants to get a car with a manual transmission before everything goes electric. He also wants his kids to have the skill of operating a clutch. It doesn't need to be fancy, but he does want ...

Police say the 25-year-old beat the elderly man before attempting to take off in his car, but stalled several times due to not knowing how to drive a stick shift A Florida man was arrested in Orlando ...

After a basketball accident I have nerve damage in my left foot and sadly can't drive stick anymore. Looking for something practical but still fun to flog on weekends. My commute is absurdly short but ...

A car thief was caught near the Hotel Del Coronado earlier in the month because the thief couldn't drive a stick shift, reads a police report online. The pursuit began when Officer Chan of the ...