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 ...

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When most people learn to drive a manual transmission, they're worried about stalling the engine at a traffic light. When I learned how to drive a manual, an instructor was telling me over a ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley, Jillian Melchior and Dan Henninger. Images: Zuma Press/AFP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Only around 18% of ...

While stick-shift cars aren't in vogue anymore, with automatic shifters being the industry standard, there are still plenty of older and custom rides out there with manual transmissions. As long as ...

Faith Bottum writes of a few reasons to commend a stick shift (“The Dying Art of Driving a Stick Shift,” op-ed, March 28), such as lower cost and less theft, largely because there are few people left ...