Being able to drive a manual transmission was once seen as a basic driving skill that people would actively seek out instruction for. Of course, buying your own manual transmission car is a great ...

Auto journalists are a little intimidating, and auto readers even more. So, what I’m about to say is probably the most terrifying thing I’ll write on Driving. Here it goes: I can’t drive a manual. In ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once upon a time, being able to handle a clutch was an essential part of driver’s ed. In fact, the automobile was more than 40 years old before the first commercially available automatic (the ...

Is it worth learning to use a clutch when most new cars, including all electric ones, make gear-changing a dying art? Yorkshire-born, Wessex-based widow, writer, motoring and lifestyle journalist, ...

Are young adults finally jumping on the #savethemanuals bandwagon? According to a recent consumer survey done by Mini USA, manuals still have an opportunity to shine — which is good for Mini, ...

Caitlin Graham wanted to learn to drive in an automatic car as she hoped the test would be quicker to pass without having to get to grips with a gear box. But the 22-year-old says she had little ...