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 ...

Leaning how to drive for the first time isn’t always pretty. How did you learn? Automatic or stick shift? Is one easier than the other? We went back to drivers ed to find out. “What we believe if that ...

These days, when most people want speed and ease, going for a stick shift isn’t about usefulness – it’s tied to who you are and what excites you. CarMax, a well-known secondhand auto seller, found in ...

This unusual arrangement was thanks to a company called the Stick Shift Driving Academy. The online service pairs people who want to learn how to drive a stick shift with people who have a car with a ...

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 ...

BREA, Calif. (WHTM) — Like almost all her friends, 16-year-old Ellie Forgues has a smartphone. But like almost none of them — and like an increasingly small minority of Americans of all ages — she ...

MINNEAPOLIS — I spent part of Halloween hanging out in a cemetery. I wasn’t there to commune with the dead. Instead, I was getting reacquainted with the dying art of driving a stick shift car. In ...

Berlin (CNN) — For old-school connoisseurs of the automobile — usually men — driving means operating a beloved vehicle by touch, with three pedals underfoot and a shift stick at hand. In Europe, this ...