Shifting gears, the feel of the clutch underneath your hand. These mark the experience behind the wheel of a manual transmission car — now a rare breed in the U.S. Though the American auto industry ...

The manual transmission truck has been slowly dying out since the mid-2000s. In fact, America's most popular pickup truck – the Ford F-150 – phased out the stick after 2008, and the Chevy Silverado ...

It’s a sad fact that the manual transmission, while unlikely to go fully extinct anytime soon, is becoming increasingly rare. Driving culture is changing and so are driving habits; cars are also going ...

Driving a stick shift is becoming increasingly rare, so rare that it's said to serve as a deterrent to auto theft since many ...

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

Saving the manual transmission needn't mean staying stuck in the past, and car companies promising engagement above all else have dug deep to pair performance with the sort of involvement only three ...

Years passed with car makers pushing one clear path ahead – packed with self-shifting transmissions, better fuel use, because onboard tech kept getting sharper, taking charge of nearly everything ...

Unlike an automatic transmission that switches gears depending on the vehicle's speed, a manual transmission requires the driver to make the change with the stick shift. For drivers new to manual ...