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 ...

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 ...

Driving a car with a clutch takes a lot of coordination and experience. However, even seasoned stick-shift drivers are often ...

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 Roselawn Cemetery ...

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 ...

Their teens are ready to drive. Can a stick shift save them from being distracted? (Photo illustration: Gabriella Turrisi/Yahoo News; photos: Getty Images) Logan was equal parts excited and nervous ...

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 ...

PATERSON, NJ -- Can you drive a car with manual transmission, a stick shift? These days most people can't. A man from Paterson, New Jersey was in his car when two men put a gun to his head and tried ...

This week Salon's David Sirota wrote an apologetic, mealy-mouthed bit of automotive-themed self-loathing asking if it's ethical to drive a manual-transmission car even if it gets poorer gas mileage ...

The 2026 Honda Civic Si arrives at a moment when the manual transmission is rapidly disappearing, yet it manages to feel both ...