When buying my first car (a 1997 Geo Metro), the salesman gave the usual spiel about how great the car was and then added, “Because this is a stick shift, you will also get great gas mileage.” I was ...
Years passed with car makers pushing one clear path ahead – packed with self-shifting transmissions, better fuel use, because onboard tech kept getting sharper, taking charge of nearly everything ...
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 ...