Knowing how to drive a car equipped with a manual transmission is more important than it might seem. Even if your daily driver is automatic, you may get stuck in a foreign country renting a car from a ...

Living in North America, sometimes it feels as though most people have never even seen a manual transmission – let alone know how to drive one. This is a bit of a misconception, though, as a ...

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 ...

The neutral (N) gear in a manual transmission vehicle is not exactly a gear like first (1), second (2), third (3), or reverse (R). Placing the shift lever in neutral means the transmission is not ...

I can hear my father’s words ringing through my head whenever I see a stick shift car:You have to learn how to drive a stick shift car. It is a necessary thing. What if you were ever in a situation ...

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