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.

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 ...

This is the age of the paddle shifter / bump shifter. You can get one in the new Camaro, and you'll see it on racetracks, as the computer-controlled automatic slowly eats away at the notion that ...

It’s tough for a compact SUV to find its place in a family that exalts horsepower and burnouts the way Dodge does. But the Hornet makes a solid effort, with the plug-in hybrid Hornet R/T generating a ...