Some car controls have become so perplexing that they might even be dangerous. There's been speculation that such confusion might have played a role when a Metro-North commuter train crashed into an ...

Cars with manual transmissions are becoming rarer and rarer each year. That’s why it’s such big news when a brand like Toyota returns the three-pedal transmission to the Supra. While we might get ...

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 ...

May 6, 2014 (DETROIT) -- General Motors is recalling nearly 60,000 Saturn Aura midsize cars because the automatic transmission shift levers can show the wrong gear, and says it has known about the ...

The Blue Oval plans to launch the first product of its innovative new Universal EV Platform next year, and the automaker is ...

Tesla's user experience team seems to really have it in for the traditional way cars are put into gear. Or, really, it's not even technically putting the car into "gear" anymore, as much as just ...

It's deployable and can function as a sequential shifter or a full-on six-speed stick. Too bad there aren't actual gears to swap. Electric vehicles have completely different powertrains versus ...

If you drive a car with an automatic transmission, chances are you're used to and fond of the seamless way in which these devices allow us to drive. There's no shifting manually, no need to perfectly ...

As traditional, mechanical gearshifts slowly disappear, by-wire electric shifters are taking their place. That isn't always a good thing. Craig brought 15 years of automotive journalism experience to ...

Paddle shifters, also known as a flappy-paddle gearbox, are a mechanism used to control and select gears on a vehicle's transmission. The paddle shifters are positioned behind the steering wheel, ...

Cyclocross bikes typically have paddle-style shift levers integrated into their brake levers, like road bikes do. While this setup his its advantages, cyclocross riders generally like things to be ...