When you talk about the thrill of driving, it's hard to ignore its active elements: feathering the throttle, trail braking, turning the steering wheel into a gentle bend, or grabbing a clean heel-toe ...

The performance sedan may be on life support, but that’s not going to keep General Motors’ equally slippery luxury brand from pandering to life’s most precious luxury: a brand new V8 sedan with a ...

I'm not an old school guy. I love double clutch gearboxes and I think they're the way of the future. But I just drove a car with a gated manual shift and it's properly magical. It's also the ...

As avid readers of The Drive might vividly recall, I am not the biggest fan of BMW’s manual transmissions. The shifter is always rubbery, pedal placement is disagreeable, and they’re simply more ...

Ty is an experienced writer, editor and journalist. He has been reviewing vehicles and covering automotive news full-time for nearly a decade for outlets such as Gear Patrol and InsideEVs. Ferrari may ...

Manual transmissions have been fading from new pickup trucks for years, but 2026 marks a sharper turning point. With rivals ...

Rowing the gears in a manual-transmission car used to be so simple. Back in the old four-speed days, your forward gears formed an “H” pattern. Then came the five-speed gearbox, which put fifth gear to ...

While stick-shift cars aren't in vogue anymore, with automatic shifters being the industry standard, there are still plenty of older and custom rides out there with manual transmissions. As long as ...

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

She had never seen “that thing” known as a six-speed stick shift, a manual transmission, a slushbox, a manny tranny, a handshaker, a Millennial theft deterrent. To her it was a relic, an oddity, a ...