Terrified of stalling in traffic? Discover the realistic timeline for mastering a manual transmission and why learning stick is worth the effort.

I have been obsessed with vehicles since childhood. Sadly, I don’t have a natural talent for mechanical engineering and its adjacent sciences. I’m not particularly strong and only have six fully ...

Isaac Atienza is a Filipino motoring journalist who joined TopSpeed.com in 2021. He also owns a Filpino motoring website called Go Flat Out PH and is also a contributor to a local newspaper called The ...

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 ...

Learning how to drive a manual transmission is a great idea for drivers, young and old. Not only are they usually fun, but you never know when the skill will come in handy. In a world dominated by ...

The manual transmission is starting to go the way of the dodo, although there are still several new cars, trucks, and SUVs you can buy that have a stick shift — and, of course, used options abound.

Earning one’s driver’s license is an American rite of passage. While we may think of it as a teenage milestone, it’s also a critical one for immigrants who come to the United States later in life.

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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 ...