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 ...

Auto journalists are a little intimidating, and auto readers even more. So, what I’m about to say is probably the most terrifying thing I’ll write on Driving. Here it goes: I can’t drive a manual. In ...

A friend of mine called me recently after he purchased his first car with a manual transmission. He had never officially learned the craft of driving manual, but he is a car guy and a mechanical ...

Technically, manuals rank somewhere between an anachronism and an affectation. They’re slower and less efficient than the best automatic transmissions. Feet held to the fire, even manuals’ biggest ...

One of these days our Save the Manuals campaign will arrive at its inevitable end. Even if the ol’ stick shift wins a battle every now and then, newer, smoother, and faster transmission technology is ...

When Linda Waterhouse was 16, she went out with a friend who had too much to drink and couldn’t drive home. If her friend’s car had been an automatic, there wouldn’t have been a problem – but it had a ...

If you're planning a trip through Europe, setting your own pace by renting a car seems like the way to go, right? After all, you don't have to worry about confusing public transit systems or noisy ...

If the goal in driving is to put a smile on your face without breaking the bank, two cars that should be high on any list are the Subaru BRX and WRX. These are not the 500- or 600-horsepower sports ...

Learning to drive a car with a manual transmission (also known as a stick-shift) was once a rite of passage in Australia but, thanks to the rise in popularity of automatics, the old cog-swapper ...