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 ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. (KABC) -- With advancements in automatic transmissions, driving a stick shift seems to be a lost art. But a manual transmission does give you more control, and some teenagers learned ...

When Ahmed Raza bought his stick-shift car just a few years ago, he’d never before driven one. He figured out the basics right then and there, with the benefit of a parking lot and some patience, and ...

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 Roselawn Cemetery ...

Thanks to you, readers of Hagerty Media and automotive enthusiast extraordinaires, we received a fantastic number of truly wonderful stories of how “we” learned how to drive a manual transmission. Be ...

Once upon a time, being able to handle a clutch was an essential part of driver’s ed. In fact, the automobile was more than 40 years old before the first commercially available automatic (the ...

Both Ashley & Mitchell realized that they both shared the same stick-shift secret. A sort of ‘Co-Host Confession’ if you will. Which, as you may have guessed, we don’t know how to drive a stick-shift.

A stick shift in a 2009 BMW M3. - The Car Spy/WikiMedia Commons Being able to drive a manual transmission was once seen as a basic driving skill that people would actively seek out instruction for. Of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shifting gears, the feel of the clutch underneath your hand. These mark the experience behind the wheel of a manual transmission ...

There's a long-running debate among drivers about whether those who learned on a manual transmission are genuinely more skilled behind the wheel. It's a question that tends to stir up strong opinions; ...