In December 2018, Ford submitted patent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for a Manual Transmission with Electric Clutch. The USPTO published the patent last November, Muscle Cars & ...

As much as many car enthusiasts object to EVs because of their eerie silence and inherent battery weight, the absence of an engine isn’t the only thing that’s turning off such buyers. It’s the lack of ...

Robert has been an auto enthusiast his entire life. He started working on cars at a young age, learning the basics from his father in the home garage on the weekends. Over the years, he learned as ...

While the manual gearbox as we know it is a dying breed, a group of manufacturers are preserving its DNA in a different way.

TOKYO, Nov 8, 2023 - (JCN Newswire) - - Honda Motor Co., Ltd has developed the world's first(1) Honda E-Clutch system for motorcycles that enables smooth starting and gear shifting without the need ...

A manual transmission uses a stick to shift gears and a third pedal to operate the clutch. Current trends show that manual gear shifting is rapidly becoming obsolete. For select sports cars and ...

Manual transmissions are becoming an endangered species, especially when it comes to pickup trucks. Once a staple of workhorses and off-road rigs, the three-pedal setup has nearly disappeared from ...

When this story was written in 2013, it asked this question about automated and automatic transmissions in over-the-road trucking: "Will they finally be able to make a strong inroads?" According to ...

From the November/December 2025 issue of Car and Driver. Despite our best efforts, our crusade to "Save the manuals!" has failed to keep the stick shift off the endangered-species list. When our ...