For most drivers, a vehicle's automatic transmission — the most common kind of transmission nowadays, more's the pity — has three settings: Drive, Park, and Reverse. Most automatic transmissions, ...

Driving an automatic car is easy-peasy compared to piloting a manual. The most common gear settings in an automatic vehicle are Park (P), Reverse (R), Neutral (N), and Drive (D). The rest are not ...

A semi-automatic transmission combines the best features of both modern automatic and old-school manual gearboxes. Here's how ...

Imagine driving your car with a manual transmission without shifting the gears properly. It would be unnecessarily severe on your car’s engine and gearbox because you would be lugging (when driving in ...

How do you like your gears shifted? Are you a DIY enthusiast, or do you prefer to delegate ratio-swapping duties to the genies hiding under your console? Despite what some manual diehards will tell ...