If you take a stroll through a crowded parking lot in any American city, you are likely looking at a sea of vehicles. The manual transmission, once the standard for nearly every car on the road, has ...

Manual cars might seem like a thing of the past, but if you love driving stick you can still find new ones.

Manual gearboxes aren’t extinct just yet, but the outlook isn’t great. Across the industry, the good ol’ stick shift is quietly vanishing. Even BMW’s M division has said outright that manuals probably ...

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 ...

Huzzah! The Mustang will remain manual, even as competitors shirk away from stick shift development ...

Do you own, or plan to own, a stick shift car? If you’ve ever gotten behind the wheel of one of these types of vehicles, you know that there’s a certain degree of finesse required to operate them. You ...

Learning to drive a stick shift while being screamed at by a parent used to be a rite of passage for America’s youth, but times have changed. Studies have shown fewer and fewer people are bothering to ...

The sound of a motor when it's at the top of the Rs is like music to my grease monkey ears. No matter if there are four cylinders screaming a high-pitched whine or eight cylinders growling a deep ...

If avocados can get a national holiday, so can stick shifts. In 2018, Cars.com dubbed July 16 as National Stick Shift Day, a time to pay homage to the joys of short throws and working all the pedals.

Few modifications improve performance without breaking the bank like a quality short shifter. Simply put, if you have a stick-equipped Mustang and you’re using either the stock shifter or anything ...

How did I learn to drive a stick shift? Trial and error — mostly error. Today is National Stick Shift Day. Well, Cars.com’s Editorial department has decided to ...

Whether you have a stick shift car now or want to put one in the driveway in the future, there’s a certain amount of finesse required to be able to safely and efficiently operate a car with a manual ...