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 ...

If you take a stroll through a crowded parking lot in any American city, you are likely looking at a sea of vehicles. The manual transmission, once the standard for nearly every car on the road, has ...

Manual cars might seem like a thing of the past, but if you love driving stick you can still find new ones.

But stick shift fans say it’s a more engaging way to drive. “You’re using your ears and the seat of your pants,” said Riley Rosell, a 28-year-old Lake Elmo resident who bought a stick shift Mitsubishi ...

MINNEAPOLIS — I spent part of Halloween hanging out in a cemetery. I wasn’t there to commune with the dead. Instead, I was getting reacquainted with the dying art of driving a stick shift car. In ...