Knowing how to drive a car equipped with a manual transmission is more important than it might seem. Even if your daily driver is automatic, you may get stuck in a foreign country renting a car from a ...

When most people learn to drive a manual transmission, they're worried about stalling the engine at a traffic light. When I learned how to drive a manual, an instructor was telling me over a ...

Ford's marketing campaign for the upcoming Ford Fiesta econobox is called the Fiesta Movement. Basically, it's aiming to build buzz by putting the keys to 100 Fiestas into the hands of 100 attractive ...

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 ...

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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 ...

My dad taught me how to drive a manual transmission in a church parking lot using a 1951 Willys Station Wagon. That might not seem like the greatest vehicle for a new driver to learn how to drive ...

When Linda Waterhouse was 16, she went out with a friend who had too much to drink and couldn’t drive home. If her friend’s car had been an automatic, there wouldn’t have been a problem – but it had a ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A couple of weeks ago I decided to try and use video games to learn how to operate a manual transmission. After several hours behind a fake steering ...

If you happen to walk down the street and see a pair of guys dressed in British Racing Green, who ask you “Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord, the manual gearbox?” don’t be ...

The death of the manual transmission is still exaggerated, but it's fair to say that your options are small if you're looking for a new car in the U.S. with a stick shift. That's doubly the case if ...