Driving stick is a vanishing art. Everyone, seemingly, learns to drive on an automatic transmission and then never picks up the skills need to operate a manual. Which is a shame, as there's no better ...

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 ...

I've been driving since I was 16, but because I hail from Australia, a country with huge highways and giant commuting times (though not as many kangaroos on the road as you'd imagine), I learned to ...

Knowing how to drive a stick shift today is kind-of an useless trick to most people. These days most people prefer automatic gearboxes both for their improved fuel consumption but also because they ...

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 ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. A couple of weeks ago I decided to try and use video games to learn how to operate a manual transmission. After several hours behind a fake steering ...

Have you ever heard someone passionately extol the virtues of an automatic transmission? No, because they're boring. Jalopnik readers are here to tell you the ten reasons why you should drive a manual ...

Ever since I first watched my dad drive his chocolate brown Datsun 280 ZX back in the early 1980s, I’ve been inculcated to believe that driving — true driving — can only be performed with a stick ...

Shaun Westbrook is like many of us. He grew up with car posters adorning his bedroom walls. Most car enthusiasts, without a second of hesitation, can tell you about the one car they pined for in their ...

"Because I'm a car guy, I want my daughter to drive a stick," the comedian explains. Jerry Seinfeld is famous for his observant brand of humor and it turns out, all of those years contemplating human ...