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 ...

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 ...

Learning to drive a stick shift while being screamed at by a parent used to be a rite of passage for America’s youth, but times have changed. Studies have shown fewer and fewer people are bothering to ...

Manual transmissions have quietly become a niche skill, yet the drivers who still use them tend to be more attentive, more ...

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 ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A couple of weeks ago I decided to try and use video games to learn how to operate a manual transmission. After several hours behind a fake steering ...

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 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 ...

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 ...