How Sport Mode Changes the Way Your Transmission Shifts Every automatic gear shift has a D for Drive. Most also have an S ...

There are different arguments that can be made both for and against automatic and manual vehicle transmissions. Manual transmissions offer more nuanced control and an opportunity to better optimize ...

Each letter or number listed on the transmission gear shift represents a unique setting or task for the transmission. Here is what each letter or number means. Virtually all passenger cars nowadays ...

There’s no bones about it: slipping transmissions cost big money, whether you’re a humble owner or a giant car company. Perhaps the best recent example is the PowerShift transmission, which in recent ...

Erik Sherman is an automotive journalist and motorcycle enthusiast. Although he has served and worked all over the world in different capacities, his passions belong to all things automotive. His love ...

Nine-speed gearboxes may be commonplace now, but the world's first example didn't have such an easy birth when it was launched. And it wasn't that long ago.

Automatic transmissions are highly complex automotive components. They're significantly more complicated and challenging to work on than manual transmissions, which means expensive repairs and ...

A Kentucky 2025 Toyota Tacoma owner reports persistent transmission slipping and jerking from 1st to 3rd gear. Despite 10,000 ...

It's hard to remember that up until around the late 1980s or even early 1990s not every vehicle came from the factory with an overdrive manual or automatic transmission. Furthermore, many of these ...