Raise your hand if you answered that the difference between a single and dual-clutch transmission is one clutch. Excellent. We're halfway home. Single-clutch and dual-clutch transmissions differ in ...

The Koenigsegg Jesko is too good for dual-clutch. It's too good for three clutches, or four or five or six. No, the Jesko's transmission has seven clutches, in an effort to make the time between gear ...

One of the most fulfilling parts of driving a car is shifting gears. Enthusiasts like us yearn for open, twisty roads, going through the gears and surfing a wave of torque. Yet, most of us are stuck ...

Until now, the How It Works series has focused on how an engine makes power. Now we'll fill you in on how engine power is made usable to propel a car. The parts used to get the car moving consist of ...

The automatic transmission has been a given option through most our time behind the wheel, but that wasn’t always the case. In the early ’30s there was no such animal. The main purpose behind any ...

Automatic transmissions are the transmissions of choice in today's diesel realm. They've come a long way over the last decade, and are now beefier and more complex than ever before. This is an effort ...

Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...

Does your clutch slip? It should. Your clutch and transmission are "in the middle." That's not just slang. Your engine is running. Your car is standing still. Only by correct clutch operation—which ...

Jeep's 545RFE automatic transmission had two second gears with different ratios. One of the "second gears" was for shifting ...

Because we use them every day, the operation of a car seems simple, but a car is a very complex machine. One of the most complex systems in the typical vehicle is the automatic transmission. This ...