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

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

You’re taking a leisurely Sunday drive, cruising down the open road. Suddenly, you feel a slight jerk, and your car struggles to accelerate. What just happened? It’s time we demystify an ...

There are different arguments that can be made both for and against automatic and manual vehicle transmissions. Manual transmissions offer more nuanced control and an opportunity to better optimize ...

The term "bigger is better" echoes in the minds of most diesel owners and usually goes hand in hand with making more horsepower and torque with their truck. Unfortunately, when the factory automatic ...

Unless you've driven auto-trans '11 and '12 Corvettes back-to-back and compared their shifting performance in manual "tap" mode, you might not have known that this year's model is significantly ...

For a long time hot rodders have had to make tough choices. One of these was choosing between a manual and automatic transmission. For the road course nothing beats rowing through the gears manually.

A few simple and inexpensive modifications can transform most Turbo Hydra-Matics from a smooth-shifting transmission into a quick, solid-shifting box. This transmission may have different names, ...

Jeep's 545RFE automatic transmission had two second gears with different ratios. One of the "second gears" was for shifting ...