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 ...

The manual transmission is starting to go the way of the dodo, although there are still several new cars, trucks, and SUVs you can buy that have a stick shift — and, of course, used options abound.

”Most people have automatics,” he said. “And of the people who have a stick shift car, a lot of times they’re driving a car that they don’t really want a beginner learning on.” Frustaci, who had a ...

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

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 ...