Manual transmissions often can also improve acceleration, sometimes significantly. That can be a welcome benefit with a smaller engine. And many drivers find driving with a stick more engaging and ...

You may think of automotive automatic transmissions as black boxes, with complicated innards that do their own thing based on little or no input. But perhaps none is as little understood as the ...

Dual-clutch automatics have become very popular, because they shift gears quickly and smoothly, while at the same time being very efficient; almost as efficient as a regular manual gearbox in ...

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and author of the book "The Second World Wars: How ...