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 ...

Manual transmissions have been fading from new pickup trucks for years, but 2026 marks a sharper turning point. With rivals ...

As the American auto fleet becomes increasingly electrified, stick shifts will be harder to find. Carmakers are trying to figure out how to offer a fun experience for drivers who now prefer the stick ...

Do you own, or plan to own, a stick shift car? If you’ve ever gotten behind the wheel of one of these types of vehicles, you know that there’s a certain degree of finesse required to operate them. You ...

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 ...

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 ...

Do you know how to drive a vehicle with a stick shift? Fewer drivers than ever actually even know what a stick shift is. Now, at the Henry Ford, the Hagerty Insurance Group put on its 11th annual ...

A recent SFGATE article celebrated the city's stick-shift holdouts, people who continue to drive cars with manual transmissions and enjoy the challenge of the roller-coaster hills. In the comments, we ...

If avocados can get a national holiday, so can stick shifts. In 2018, Cars.com dubbed July 16 as National Stick Shift Day, a time to pay homage to the joys of short throws and working all the pedals.

Whether you have a stick shift car now or want to put one in the driveway in the future, there’s a certain amount of finesse required to be able to safely and efficiently operate a car with a manual ...