Fans of "The Big Bang Theory" know that Sheldon Cooper (Jim Parsons) is good at many things, but driving isn't one of them. Having spent his teenage years probing the secrets of the universe and ...

Conventional cars with manual gearboxes will become off limits to future generations of drivers. Why is that so? Because over the last two decades or so, interest in automatic cars has spiked, and it ...

Learning to drive a manual transmission may have been a rite of passage for older generations, but not everyone is familiar with driving a stick. Manuals, which are called stick shifts in the U.S., ...

According to the 2024 EPA Automotive Trends report, nearly 35% of all new vehicle models sold in 1980 were equipped with a manual transmission — but for 2024, that number has shrunk to below 1%. Yet ...

It's easy for us here at Autoblog to be biased about manual transmissions. It's easily our favorite way to drive, no matter how underpowered a car might be. At the end of the day, it's about control ...

Knowing how to drive a car equipped with a manual transmission is more important than it might seem. Even if your daily driver is automatic, you may get stuck in a foreign country renting a car from a ...

Japanese researchers claim in a new study that driving a car with a manual transmission is good for your brain. The study cites research that reportedly shows that rowing your own gears stimulates the ...

Mini USA has announced it’s bringing the manual gearbox back to the USA and introducing a ‘Manual Driving School’ The sales of cars fitted with manual transmissions have been declining for years now, ...

I love manual transmissions. I grew up driving with a stick. I still own one as my technical “daily driver,” even though it’s seldom driven daily while I’m testing cars. But each year, the list of ...