Shifting gears, the feel of the clutch underneath your foot. These mark the experience behind the wheel of a manual transmission car — now a rare breed in the U.S. Though the American auto industry ...

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A manual transmission uses a stick to shift gears and a third pedal to operate the clutch. Current trends show that manual gear shifting is rapidly becoming obsolete. For select sports cars and ...

If you are often driving a manual transmission car, you've probably had instances where you skipped from first to third gear or even went from fifth gear down to third gear. It seems faster and more ...

Manual transmissions teach higher levels of car control, "mechanical sympathy" with your car, multitasking brain power, and ...

For me, it was always the manual transmission. Growing up during the 1990s, both mom and dad drove a car with a stick. Actually, come to think of it, that was also the case for my grandparents, as ...