Scuderia '89 - The Pursuit for Paddle' is a five-car collection that charts the development of the ground-breaking ...

Steven Ewing spent his childhood reading car magazines, making his career as an automotive journalist an absolute dream job. After getting his foot in the door at Automobile while he was still a ...

Kia's paddle-shift feature has a more descriptive name — it's literally called "Virtual Gear Shift." Still, it works in the same way, accompanied by fake engine noises. Drift Mode is also available ...

Lexus has officially unveiled its new Lexus IS family: The IS 250 features a 2.5-liter V6 engine and either a six-speed manual transmission, or a new six-speed automatic transmission with steering ...

Years ago, manual transmissions were the only choice for performance sports cars, including F1. But in the 1980s, F1 cars began to change to paddle shifters, with Ferrari being the technology leader ...

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 ...

For a long time hot rodders have had to make tough choices. One of these was choosing between a manual and automatic transmission. For the road course nothing beats rowing through the gears manually.

A heated vibrating shift paddle? Maybe the paddle-shift gearbox wouldn't have gotten so much hate back when the feature was new if it had come with something like this. Porsche is still working on ...