In today’s edition of What the Heck, we have the strange case of Ford wanting to put what is essentially a fake manual shifter in its electric vehicles. The company has applied for a patent that aims ...

With automatics, DCTs and various other modern alternatives making driving more convenient than ever, take rates for manuals have been down for quite some time. Moreover, the growth of the EV segment ...

Automatic transmissions are pretty self-explanatory, and for the most part, fairly foolproof. Most of us will be familiar with the usual settings found on an automatic shifter, with P, R, N, and D ...

Manual transmission vehicles once dominated the roads in countries around the world, but as automatic transmission technology improved, stick-shifts began to disappear. However, there has been a ...