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 ...

It may not look it, but the D3 function found on your gear shift serves a surprisngly useful purpose separate from that of the regular D symbol.

There are different arguments that can be made both for and against automatic and manual vehicle transmissions. Manual transmissions offer more nuanced control and an opportunity to better optimize ...

If you drive a car that has a manual transmission, there are a few things you can do to boost your MPG. One of the main ...

I’m driving to work on the last stretch of a long commute, wending through snow-slick roads in Weston, when I come to what I like to think of as “the big turn.” It’s a left that usually involves ...

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 ...

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 ...