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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS — 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 ...

BREA, Calif. (WHTM) — Like almost all her friends, 16-year-old Ellie Forgues has a smartphone. But like almost none of them — and like an increasingly small minority of Americans of all ages — she ...

In recent years, automakers have introduced increasingly advanced driver assist systems. The act of driving is becoming more detached as manufacturers race to be the first to bring a fully-autonomous ...

When Ahmed Raza bought his stick-shift car just a few years ago, he’d never before driven one. He figured out the basics right then and there, with the benefit of a parking lot and some patience, and ...

When most people learn to drive a manual transmission, they're worried about stalling the engine at a traffic light. When I learned how to drive a manual, an instructor was telling me over a ...

I can drive stick (learned 21 years ago) but I prefer auto. To me, driving is transportation, not entertainment.<BR><BR>There's probably some connection with my attitude towards driving and the fact ...