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 ...

Driving stick is a vanishing art. Everyone, seemingly, learns to drive on an automatic transmission and then never picks up the skills need to operate a manual. Which is a shame, as there's no better ...

Knowing how to drive a stick shift today is kind-of an useless trick to most people. These days most people prefer automatic gearboxes both for their improved fuel consumption but also because they ...

I've been driving since I was 16, but because I hail from Australia, a country with huge highways and giant commuting times (though not as many kangaroos on the road as you'd imagine), I learned to ...

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 ...

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 ...

I didn’t know how to drive a stick. In the general population, this wasn’t a big deal. Only about seven percent of cars sold in the U.S. have a manual transmission. There’s an ostensibly funny ...

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Shaun Westbrook is like many of us. He grew up with car posters adorning his bedroom walls. Most car enthusiasts, without a second of hesitation, can tell you about the one car they pined for in their ...

"Because I'm a car guy, I want my daughter to drive a stick," the comedian explains. Jerry Seinfeld is famous for his observant brand of humor and it turns out, all of those years contemplating human ...