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 ...

A few months back, I wrote about how I dug into BMW’s parts catalog to see what kind of premium upgrades I could affix to my BMW 128i’s interior. What I came up with was a neat Alcantara center trim ...

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 ...

The word of the day is "knob." Knobs are virtually everywhere. In fact, if you're reading this in a car, there's a good chance you're literally surrounded by knobs right this very moment. Knobs come ...

For many Corvette enthusiasts, this writer included, modifying a Corvette is a sensitive task. After all, you’re “messing with” designs and concepts from iconic designers and engineers like Harley ...

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 ...

Sporty Hondas are celebrated for their manual shift experience. The feel, the throw, the snick-snick-snick—all reasons I bought my Civic Si. So I was surprised to hear Russ Garehan, main man at Honda ...

While the cockpit of a C5 Corvette is comfortable, ergonomic, and relatively functional, it's not exactly a tour de force as far as style. GM has kept the C5 interior rather understated, which leaves ...

In this touchscreen, push-button, mouse-click world, there’s an undeniable mechanical satisfaction about driving a manual transmission. A perfectly rev-matched downshift proves to the world that ...

For generations, having an automatic transmission has meant using a lever on the car's console or steering column to change gears. But with more electronic transmission controls eliminating the need ...