When you talk about the thrill of driving, it's hard to ignore its active elements: feathering the throttle, trail braking, turning the steering wheel into a gentle bend, or grabbing a clean heel-toe ...

Paddle shifters used to be found exclusively in high-performance sports cars, but these days, they’re featured regular cars like the new Ford Escape and even the Honda Odyssey minivan. But don’t ...

Many cars nowadays are manufactured with automatic transmissions. Manual is not as comfortable as its counterpart, but it doesn’t necessarily stop consumers from liking the authentic driving ...

Years ago, when General Motors launched the 2014 Cadillac ATS, the premium GM brand made a big to-do about the car’s brand-new magnesium paddle shifters. While not a particularly rare element, ...

Honda is attempting to find a middle ground with its new S+ Shift system, debuting on the 2026 Honda Prelude. At the heart of ...

It's a gearhead given: the faster you can rip through the gears, the faster you get from point A to point B. We submit that this is true for any transmission, whether manual or automatic. Even those ...

Years ago, manual transmissions were the only choice for performance sports cars, including F1. But in the 1980s, F1 cars began to change to paddle shifters, with Ferrari being the technology leader ...

It can boost range and help save your brakes, but it’s also a feature with wildly different approaches depending on the ...

Those tools of convenience we call automatic transmissions have made our driving easy ever since the first Hydramatic two-speed was bolted to an Oldsmobile back in 1939, but as we see in the examples ...

In the late ‘80s, Ferrari engineers — never shy about taking risks — installed small paddles flanking the steering wheels on Enzo’s Formula One race cars. The idea was to allow the driver to shift ...