New and revolutionary aren’t always better than the tried-and-true… when it comes to shifters. The automotive world is in a perpetual state of transformation, and while innovations in electrification, ...
While we all respect and love the original early hot rods of the '40s and '50s, the street rods built from the '60s until this moment have written their own history and produced fine examples of ...
You might be surprised by how different your driving experience is with an aftermarket shift knob. Main photo credit: Jason Siu Speak to any seasoned track enthusiast or veteran race car driver and ...
Flying through gears provides a high for manual transmission fans. Climbing up the numbers and mating the synchros releases dopamine and makes us feel like Dominic Toretto using one of the Fast and ...
Harnessing the power of Ford’s open-source platform OpenXC, 3D printing, Bluetooth and a Xbox 360, one of the Detroit automobile manufacturer’s engineers has created a manual shift gear knob that ...
Decades ago, most drivers were trained on how to drive a stick shift. The familiar layout of of two perpendicular lines that looked like double Hs appeared on gear shift knobs in automobiles and this ...
It seems like carmakers have some sort of beef with the traditional shift lever. Whether it be through rotary dials, fancy knobs, or crystal shift orbs (looking at you Genesis), manufacturers have — ...
Using crystal in a luxury car may seem extravagant unless it’s in a Rolls-Royce, and even then it could feel a little over the top. Not so for Volvo, which went whole hog in the S60 concept car by ...
The automotive world is in a perpetual state of transformation, and while innovations in electrification, infotainment, and autonomous driving seem to get the most attention, it’s the once lowly shift ...