Porsche's ideas seem so obvious once they're revealed - this time, Stuttgart suggests warmer fingertips and adaptive shift ...

Many cars nowadays are manufactured with automatic transmissions. Manual is not as comfortable as its counterpart, but it doesn’t necessarily stop consumers from liking the authentic driving ...

In the patent, Porsche engineers point out that automatic transmissions are "very common" and that, despite being automatic, there are times you need to change gears. Times when you want to use the ...

Subaru WRX Paddle shifters used to be the exclusive purview of track-only race cars. But if there is one place the trickle-down theory works, it's in the car world. Today, people with a relatively ...

The concept of paddle shifters is pretty straightforward. When you hit the plus paddle, the transmission shifts up, and the minus paddle makes it downshift. This is the case for most cars with paddle ...

Years ago, manual transmissions were the only choice for performance sports cars, including F1. But in the 1980s, F1 cars began to change to paddle shifters, with Ferrari being the technology leader ...

Paddle shifters used to be found exclusively in high-performance sports cars, but these days, they’re featured regular cars like the new Ford Escape and even the Honda Odyssey minivan. But don’t ...

Years ago, when General Motors launched the 2014 Cadillac ATS, the premium GM brand made a big to-do about the car’s brand-new magnesium paddle shifters. While not a particularly rare element, ...