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The Resurgence of the Stick Shift: Why Manual Cars Are Shifting Back into Style in an Automated World
Years passed with car makers pushing one clear path ahead – packed with self-shifting transmissions, better fuel use, because onboard tech kept getting sharper, taking charge of nearly everything ...
Shifting gears, the feel of the clutch underneath your hand. These mark the experience behind the wheel of a manual transmission car — now a rare breed in the U.S. Though the American auto industry ...
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What happened to manual transmissions?
Manual transmissions are disappearing as only 1-2% of US car sales include them, driven by superior automatic technology and ...
As part of our celebration of this year’s National Stick Shift Day, we thought we’d take a look at Cars.com inventory listings and help shoppers find which used cars have the most manual-equipped ...
There is no escaping the fact that the manual is a dying breed. But why is that? For starters, two-pedal transmissions get increasingly better with each passing year. In this context, better refers to ...
Saving the manual transmission needn't mean staying stuck in the past, and car companies promising engagement above all else have dug deep to pair performance with the sort of involvement only three ...
Former JLR chassis guru Mike Cross once told me he thought it was no bad thing that there weren’t many 500+hp cars available with manual transmissions because, with that much grunt on hand, drivers ...
Cars are faster than ever before and part of that improvement in overall quickness comes down to lightning-fast automatic transmissions. At the same time, it’s clear that many enthusiasts believe that ...
Most people give little thought to their car’s shifter. According to a recent CR survey, more than 99 percent of CR members reported driving newer cars with an automatic transmission, which requires ...
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