Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The compact, organized pattern for drivers wasn’t always so easily recognized, but it has helped cars become safer and more ...

If you drive or have driven a manual car made somewhat recently, chances are your shifter is in an H-pattern. Second gear is straight down from first, fourth gear is straight down from third, and ...

Transmissions, especially automatic transmissions, can be a little bit difficult to understand sometimes. There are valve bodies, brand brakes, selector forks—it’s all a bunch of jargon that often ...

As manuals slowly disappear, Porsche may have found a new way to keep the driving experience alive with a shift-by-wire system that mimics an H-pattern shifter. Manual transmissions are declining, ...

The MOZA SGP Sequential Shifter is well built and performs as expected. It can be a little noisy, but for the price, it's a great shifter to consider. If you have been into sim racing for any length ...

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 ...

There was a time when building realistic simulations of vehicles was the stuff of NASA and big corporations. Today, many people have sophisticated virtual cockpits or race cars that they use with high ...

Electric vehicles have completely different powertrains versus combustion-powered cars, but that's not stopping automakers from trying to mimic the sensations that most drivers are used to. Case in ...