Automatic transmissions are now used in most street machines, street rods, off-road vehicles, and drag race cars. With the addition of recalibration kits and new forward and reversed valve bodies, ...

The new Ferrari 12Cilindri Manuale features a gearbox with automatic and manual driving modes. It the company’s first stick ...

Modern automatics have made the old manual-versus-automatic argument much harder. Dual-clutch gearboxes, quick torque-converter automatics, launch control, and smarter shift programming now beat most ...

Cars are faster than ever before and part of that improvement in overall quickness comes down to lightning-fast automatic transmissions. At the same time, it’s clear that many enthusiasts believe that ...

The manual transmission may have another argument in its favor beyond driver engagement.

There used to be many good reasons for a new driver to learn a manual transmission: To start with, cars with stick shifts were cheaper, more efficient and quicker. The longstanding barrier has been ...

Faith Bottum writes of a few reasons to commend a stick shift (“The Dying Art of Driving a Stick Shift,” op-ed, March 28), such as lower cost and less theft, largely because there are few people left ...