Mazda's CEO confirmed the next MX-5 will be engineered without a combustion engine in mind. Here's what that means for the ...

Among the components that wear out on a car, the transmission is one of the most expensive to replace, which is why a small ...

If you are often driving a manual transmission car, you've probably had instances where you skipped from first to third gear or even went from fifth gear down to third gear. It seems faster and more ...

Nikesh Kooverjee has been contributing to the automotive sphere for 11 years. His previous roles include Digital Editor at CAR South Africa and associate editor at CarBuzz. He has always had a strong ...

Porsche may have come up with a novel way of keeping the stick shift around awhile longer. The German sports car maker has filed a patent in its home country for a shift-by-wire system that could ...

Update: The legal pressure on Toyota’s eight-speed automatic transmission isn’t easing up, as a third lawsuit has now landed in federal court. We’ve added the latest details below. Toyota is facing ...

When an engine fails, the loss is immediate, and usually very apparent via smoke, noise, and a loss of some or all power. When a transmission fails, however, it's much more subtle and insidious, ...

Generally speaking, most automatic transmissions can take a beating, and will last many hundreds of thousands of miles, but that doesn't mean they are invincible. Much like any other part of your car, ...