A major problem for the survival of the manual transmission is the dwindling number of people who know how to drive stick. Mini is trying to do something about that. The automaker is launching a ...

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 ...

What Is A Basic Drive Cycle? A basic drive cycle is a simplified version of a standard drive cycle used to evaluate the performance of a vehicle's onboard diagnostic (OBD) system. Unlike a standard ...

Cars with manual transmissions aren’t exactly popular among shoppers today. According to J.D. Power, in the third quarter of 2019 more buyers in the U.S. purchased an electric car than one with a ...

A new video on Lemon8, the TikTok alternative that debuted in 2023, offers a quick lesson to help you reach your goal. User Autoleader (@autoleader) has posted the driving advice to their account. As ...

Stick shift is back in the MINI cars with November 2022 production vehicles for the U.S. market. The German-owned brand wants to lure in more customers for the emblematic automobile. Since the ...

Renting a car for a month in Portugal seemed like a smart financial decision—until I realized the roads were narrow, the ...

If you've been driving stick for awhile, chances are someone's asked you to teach them how to do it as well. It might sound like a daunting task, but this quick video explainer from Wyatt Knox at the ...

I don’t mean to brag — actually, I do — but I successfully taught my 17-year-old son how to drive a stick shift. And he managed to learn it in about an hour. Even more impressive, there wasn’t any ...

Technically, manuals rank somewhere between an anachronism and an affectation. They’re slower and less efficient than the best automatic transmissions. Feet held to the fire, even manuals’ biggest ...

Training wheels may sound like a backhanded compliment, but the 2022 Toyota GR86 teaches untrained track drivers all the basics, even those quickly fading from style. With a manual transmission, ...