There is no argument in car culture more tired, more emotional, or more gloriously unwinnable than manual vs. automatic.

The manual-versus-automatic debate has the strange distinction of being simultaneously settled and unkillable. By every ...

The type of transmission in your car dramatically impacts how it drives and what's required from the driver. According to CarMax, the number of manual transmissions sold over the past three decades ...

Automatic transmissions work differently from regular transmissions, with one example being the use of flex plates, instead ...

Only 4 percent of American drivers say that the vehicle they most often drive has a manual transmission, according to a May 2023 nationally representative CR survey (PDF) of 2,000 American adults. But ...

I know, I know: automatic transmissions make a car automatically lame. I think I can speak for the group when I say driving is typically more fun when you do the shifting. However, every rule has ...

Technology is supposed to make life better. And while not all car-related tech accomplishes this goal, automakers have automated increasingly more vehicle functions to make driving not only easier but ...