Few subjects are as sore among the Porsche faithful as the company's refusal to put a manual transmission in the current 991 generation of their mad track weapon, the 911 GT3 RS. Now one heroic owner ...

Tremec, the company that built the automatic for both cars, just proved a manual transmission was possible all along.

Strain wave gearing is a clever way to produce a high-efficiency, high ratio gearbox within a small space. It involves an outer fixed ring of gear teeth and an inner flexible ring of teeth which are ...

According to Meineke, most automobiles use a form of automatic transmission called a hydraulic planetary automatic transmission, which is also used in a scaled-up version in some industrial and ...

In 1992, the press release for the McLaren F1 went into great detail explaining what their new six-speed manual transmission was all about. It's worth reading in full: Gear ratios offer an ultra close ...

You have a car with a manual gearbox. It's a fun car, so you want to go actually have fun with it. That means you might want to, on occasion, launch forward aggressively from a stop. You're going to ...