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 ...

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 ...

Berlin (CNN) — For old-school connoisseurs of the automobile — usually men — driving means operating a beloved vehicle by touch, with three pedals underfoot and a shift stick at hand. In Europe, this ...

Manual transmissions have been fading from new pickup trucks for years, but 2026 marks a sharper turning point. With rivals shifting entirely to automatics, only one model is expected to carry a ...

I’m driving to work on the last stretch of a long commute, wending through snow-slick roads in Weston, when I come to what I like to think of as “the big turn.” It’s a left that usually involves ...

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 ...

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 ...

They’re sticking it to Gen Z. Ford’s new electric vehicles could soon see a retro addition: manual gear shifters. A patent application from the automaker published this month details a gear shift for ...

There is no escaping the fact that the manual is a dying breed. But why is that? For starters, two-pedal transmissions get increasingly better with each passing year. In this context, better refers to ...

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 Roselawn Cemetery ...