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 ...

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 ...

When I first began driving in the 1960s, knowing how to drive a standard transmission wasn’t an option. Most trucks and muscle cars of that era used standard transmissions. Now, as an ASE and General ...