A car doesn’t necessarily need to have a manual transmission to be fun to drive, but an otherwise-boring car can feel a lot more exciting with a stick shift. Shifting on your own can make you feel ...

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 ...

When Honda extended the invitation to attend their first annual Shifting Gears event near Angeles Crest Highway, it compelled me to learn how to drive a manual again. Though there are pros to not ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Ahmed Raza bought his stick-shift car just a few years ago, he’d never before driven one. He figured out the basics right then and there, with the benefit of a parking lot and some patience, and ...

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 ...

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

This is largely due to what is almost a complete disappearance of new manual transmission car sales. Reader’s Digest reports that “just 1.83%” of new cars purchased in early 2025 were stick shift ...

Six percent of the cars sold today have a manual transmission. I believe most teenagers should know how to drive a stick shift because there's more to it than being cool. It's a different way of ...

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 ...

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 ...