The compact, organized pattern for drivers wasn’t always so easily recognized, but it has helped cars become safer and more efficient. Question: Why is the gearshift lever in a manual transmission car ...

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 ...

That said, there is one cheap manual V8 sports car left in existence, the Ford Mustang GT. Call it a muscle car or a pony car ...

That’s despite some popular sports cars ditching the H-pattern in the name of performance. The Corvette, for instance, is now automatic/DCT only. Likewise, the next-generation Porsche Cayman will ...

Rowing the gears in a manual-transmission car used to be so simple. Back in the old four-speed days, your forward gears formed an “H” pattern. Then came the five-speed gearbox, which put fifth gear to ...

‘H-pattern’ gearbox from 2023 UX300e prototype. Regulatory hurdles around licencing are proving challenging for the Lexus plan to continue developing a ‘H-pattern’ gearbox for its expanding range of ...

Manual transmissions are about to come back in a big way. There's a "major resurgence" of the old-fashioned shift it yourself transmission coming, or at least that's the prediction from the head of a ...