When the automatic transmission was young, carmakers would often set up their own shifters however they damn well felt like it. One common layout, found in General Motors and Chrysler models, among ...

Low or contaminated automatic transmission fluid Setta Sornnoi/Shutterstock One of the simplest reasons that your shifter may be stuck in park — or any other gear — is a lack of transmission ...

If you think your automatic transmission is acting up, you may be able to diagnose the issue yourself. Here are five warning signs that you should check.

In a manual transmission (MT), the driver can select the gear they need—indicated by a number from 1 to 6, or 1 to 5 for forward gears and “R” for Reverse—by pressing the clutch pedal and adjusting a ...

The E46 M3 was available with a manual transmission, but those who sprung for the then-exotic SMG transmission got a weird little shifter. To put the car into automatic mode, you had to push the ...

A manual transmission consists of mechanical gears shifted at the driver's discretion. The driver engages the clutch and shifts to control the vehicle in a manual transmission. On the other hand, the ...

Models like the Ford Focus and Dodge Dart have vanished from local showrooms without replacements, but one of these is ...

But it’s a different story with automatic transmissions. ... A Porsche 911’s stubby shifter is similar to the latest Panamera’s, ...

Both [transmissions are] shifter-changing, releasing the clutch and grabbing the clutch, so they’re almost the same. So as a result, we’re choosing the automatic transmission.