Hopping over to the far right (and furthest away from the driver) was the stick that shifted gears from first to second gear. The third (middle) stick took it from second into third gear.

So if you’re getting close to being able to reliably start the car in first gear from a dead stop, you’re actually 90 percent of the way to learning to drive a stick shift. Don’t you feel ...

To reverse, you pull the component up and move the stick into the “R” gear. With the overview done, we’re prepping for the drive. First, to start the car, I have to press my foot all the way ...

When I first sat behind the wheel of an EV, I noticed something missing: the clutch and the gear stick. The reason behind this is simple. EVs don’t have a gearbox. They’re automatic.

I admit I’m a stick-and-clutch person who believes there ... Globe Drive writer Peter Cheney wrote that he parked his test Porsche "in first gear, which is standard practice in a manual ...