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 ...

Switching from a manual to an automatic transmission may require relearning some driving techniques, maintenance tips, and correcting bad habits that did not apply to driving a manual transmission.

Factors that make a car difficult to drive fall into something of a subjective gray area. For a recently licensed teenager who learned to drive with an automatic, attempting to operate a manual would ...