Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The compact, organized pattern for drivers wasn’t always so easily recognized, but it has helped cars become safer and more ...

Rowing the gears in a manual-transmission car used to be so simple. Back in the old four-speed days, your forward gears formed an “H” pattern. Then came the five-speed gearbox, which put fifth gear to ...

Subaru is quietly working on a way to keep the joy of shifting gears alive in a future dominated by batteries and software. A new patent for a simulated manual transmission suggests the company wants ...

There was a time when building realistic simulations of vehicles was the stuff of NASA and big corporations. Today, many people have sophisticated virtual cockpits or race cars that they use with high ...

These days, sim racing is more realistic than ever. There are better screens, better headsets, and better steering wheels with better force-feedback, all of which help make you feel like you’re ...

Among the many things people fear the downturn of internal combustion will render a thing of the past is the manual transmission, and the engaging experience of shifting one’s own gears. Toyota ...

Kyle Busch had blisters on his right hand from using the shifter at COTA on Saturday. The H-pattern shifter in the trucks (and Xfinity cars) is different from the sequential shifter in the Next Gen ...