Classic cars often featured bench-mounted shifters as a standard design, a choice influenced by practicality, cultural tastes, and engineering trends of the time. These shifters were not just a ...

There's something about a gear shifter that brings the cool factor of a car to another level. The mixture of looks combined with what you know it's connected to in order to deliver more performance is ...

For decades, cars with automatic transmissions had a simple, straightforward shifter like this one. But some newer cars have shifters that look or function differently. Carmakers say the new designs ...

As the associate director of vehicle technology at CR’s Auto Test Center, Kelly Funkhouser drives a lot of cars and is always on the lookout for issues related to the usability of various automotive ...