The type of transmission in your car dramatically impacts how it drives and what's required from the driver. According to CarMax, the number of manual transmissions sold over the past three decades ...

A semi-automatic transmission combines the best features of both modern automatic and old-school manual gearboxes. Here's how ...

These automakers—including Porsche, BMW, Mazda, Honda, and more—are saving the manuals, one performance car at a time.

For 44 years, Jerry Whittenburg drove more than 4 million safe miles in a truck with a manual transmission. He had no reason to change anytime soon. But when the owner-operator's own truck broke down, ...

The average vehicle consists of countless components, from nuts and bolts to big, crucial elements like the steering wheel, tires, and gearbox. It's almost inevitable that some of them will misbehave ...

Q: I recently purchased a Hyundai with an automatic transmission after driving a stick for the past 23 years. From force of habit, I find myself putting the transmission in neutral at stop lights in ...

Manual transmissions have nearly vacated the U.S. pickup market, though you can still get one in a few Nissan Frontiers and V-6-powered four-wheel-drive Toyota Tacomas, begging the question: How does ...

Dear Tom and Ray: I have painful, incapacitating sciatica on the left side, most likely from constantly engaging the extremely hard clutch in my 2000 Toyota Celica. Have you heard of this association?