Classic cars often featured bench-mounted shifters as a standard design, a choice influenced by practicality, cultural tastes ...

While car companies have experimented over the last century with moving the shifter, it never really caught on by a majority ...

Wooden knobs at Porsche date back to the first 917 prototype race car in 1969 with a shift knob crafted from birch inlaid ...

Editor’s note: This article was last updated on Aug. 20, 2021. It has been reviewed by Cars.com Senior News Editor Jennifer Harrington and is still accurate. It’s sitting there in your car’s shift ...

This is the age of the paddle shifter / bump shifter. You can get one in the new Camaro, and you'll see it on racetracks, as the computer-controlled automatic slowly eats away at the notion that ...

If you have a first-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata, here's something you might not know: you can buy a gated shifter for your car right now. The conversion kit is from a brand called Minottek, and at the ...

I am a 72-year-old woman who drives a 2011 VW Jetta with a 5-speed manual transmission. I LOVE my car! Eventually, I will need a new car and am thinking about a hybrid SUV. I have test-driven a Honda ...

Honda Civics might be the most commonly modified cars in America—there’s not much you can do with one that hasn’t been done before. But I’ve never heard of anybody backdating an eighth-gen by running ...

Save for newer Teslas, the shifter is something you use pretty much every single time you get in your car. You use it so often, you probably take it for granted. Whether you drive an automatic or a ...

Cars with manual transmissions are becoming rarer and rarer each year. That’s why it’s such big news when a brand like Toyota returns the three-pedal transmission to the Supra. While we might get ...