The Stick Shift Driving Academy pairs freelance instructors who own manual transmissions with stick shift newbies.

Once upon a time, being able to handle a clutch was an essential part of driver’s ed. In fact, the automobile was more than 40 years old before the first commercially available automatic (the ...

In the age of cars with the constant buzzing of automation and digital convenience, the manual transmission, which has been a ...

It was around the middle of the last decade that Alan Macey realized just how bad things had gotten for the manual transmission. The clutch pedal had started to disappear from American-made vehicles ...

Can you drive a stick shift? It is a question people don’t ask as often as they used to, but it is still something you might hear one of these days. You can turn away sheepishly and pretend that you ...

After steadily losing the battle against automatics for the past 70 years, manual transmission sales are on the rise. Well, sort of. Before driving enthusiasts rejoice, consider that the recovery is ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- With advancements in automatic transmissions, driving a stick shift seems to be a lost art. But a manual transmission does give you more control, and some teenagers learned ...

BREA, Calif. (WHTM) — Like almost all her friends, 16-year-old Ellie Forgues has a smartphone. But like almost none of them — and like an increasingly small minority of Americans of all ages — she ...

Mini is bringing back the manual. The compact carmaker was forced to temporarily suspend production of cars with stick-shift transmissions this spring due to supply chain constraints, but is ...

I'm sad to report that my manual driving days are over. I thought I could still hang, but nope, I can't do it anymore. A combination of dealing with Osgood-Schlatter disease plus old football injuries ...

The GM experts at Specialty Vehicle Engineering saw that truck-sized hole in the marketplace, so the company has stepped in.