Step inside the Soft Robotics Lab at ETH Zurich, and you find yourself in a space that is part children's nursery, part ...
Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...
The dream of a manual transmission in the mid-engine C8 Corvette just gained formidable traction. Tremec, the revered name behind some of the best gearboxes in modern performance cars, has not only ...
When you consider its incredible feats on race tracks throughout the United States and its authoritative lap record on the Nürburgring, there’s no denying that the C8 ranks as the most capable ...
Manual transmissions are very rare these days, especially from American car companies. Since most drivers prefer automatics, a stick shift is an acquired taste. With most of them remaining only in ...
A great deal has been said about the impending death of the manual transmission, and it seems that the projection is proving to be accurate. Nowhere is this more evident than in the pickup truck ...
Interestingly, manual sales vary widely between the U.S. and Europe, with the latter ordering the transmissions in the single-digit percentages but Americans nearly preferring them. This leaves ...
Daud Gonzalez is a lifelong car enthusiast and automotive writer with a specialty in modified and race-ready rides. He spends most of his time modifying his cars and ruining them in the process. He is ...
View post: Which EV Has a Better Standard Feature Set, the Hyundai Ioniq 9 Calligraphy Design or the BMW iX xDrive60? It wasn’t that long ago when manual transmission versions of several vehicles were ...
As an avid car enthusiast, Joe enjoys time on the track, going to car meets, or simply taking a long drive in the Colorado mountains. Joe has always had a love for writing and cars, so he decided to ...
When General Motors revealed the mid-engine Corvette C8 for the 2020 model year, many enthusiasts lamented the loss of the manual transmission option, with GM only offering an eight-speed dual-clutch ...
It’s the end of an era as the last five-speed manual transmission in America has quietly been killed. It came standard on the entry-level Nissan Versa S, which started at $17,190 and asked customers ...