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 ...

When Ahmed Raza bought his stick-shift car just a few years ago, he’d never before driven one. He figured out the basics right then and there, with the benefit of a parking lot and some patience, and ...

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With many of the best driver's cars being manuals and dedicated three-pedal driving schools all over the country, gearheads have no excuse not to learn stick.

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 ...

This unusual arrangement was thanks to a company called the Stick Shift Driving Academy. The online service pairs people who want to learn how to drive a stick shift with people who have a car with a ...

The death of the manual transmission is still exaggerated, but it's fair to say that your options are small if you're looking for a new car in the U.S. with a stick shift. That's doubly the case if ...

Mini USA announced Friday it will launch a driving course specifically to teach people how to drive using a manual transmission. The news comes hot on the heels of certain Mini models regaining their ...

On a recent Sunday morning, in the weedy parking lot of a strip mall in Wayne, N.J., I’m sitting at the wheel of a 2017 Volkswagen Jetta. From the passenger seat, Vishnu Persaud coaches me on working ...