Automatic transmissions are a wonder of planetary gears, torque converters, and fluid. Here's how it all works to get you the speed you need when you need it.

Automatic gear selectors look fairly simple from the outside. There's a lever with a release button that when pressed, allows the user to move between Park, Neutral, Reverse, Drive, and sometimes a ...

From twin sticks to push-button drive, trucking’s gearshift evolution changed transmissions, it changed drivers, and it ...

Peugeot has decided to do away with the 208 and 2008’s protruding gear lever for automatic transmission models, where instead you’ll now get a supposedly more ergonomic design featuring a small lever ...

So, you've installed a later-model automatic transmission in your early Chevy and are wondering to yourself, "What's the easiest way to hook up the shift linkage?" If it was an auto-shift model to ...

Q: What do the numbers and letters mean on an automatic transmission: 1, 2, D, L, S, etc? A: That’s what’s known in the automotive world as the “prindle,” the pronunciation that engineers bestowed on ...

CARS.COM — Vehicles with an automatic transmission might not have a clutch and a stick shift, but they can still have trouble shifting. At times, drivers may have trouble getting the car out of Park ...

If you end up stuck in a remote area with a dead battery on your car and need to push or tow that vehicle, it will be a 'no-can-do' situation. Unless you know how to switch the transmission to Neutral ...