Manual transmissions have been fading from new pickup trucks for years, but 2026 marks a sharper turning point. With rivals shifting entirely to automatics, only one model is expected to carry a ...

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 ...

We’ve been sounding the death knell on the manual transmission for a while, and for good reason. Just 1 – 2 percent of new vehicles are equipped with a manual transmission today, and fewer cars are ...

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 ...