Driving a manual vehicle is a lost art. Hopes of a revival have fallen flat. With the rise of EVs and autonomous vehicles, ...
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 ...
For generations of drivers, learning to drive a manual car was considered a rite of passage. Mastering the clutch, timing ...
A single gear lever can be enough of a pain, but some older semi trucks actually had two shifters for their manual ...
Can you drive a stick shift? It is a question people don’t ask as often as they used to, but it is still something you might hear one of these days. You can turn away sheepishly and pretend that you ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aston Martin has delivered a gift for classically-minded driving enthusiasts: the new, manually-shifted Vantage AMR. Released at the sunset of a century’s worth of rowing gears and creeping clutches, ...