For the umpteenth time, a pair of car thieves failed to steal a car because they couldn't drive stick.

Nothing is more rewarding to a driver than the sweet sound of that perfectly timed blip of the gas pedal, effortlessly matching the revs to the wheel speed, and downshifting crisply into the preceding gear. It's the sound of a true professional.

The other day we revealed the secret to shifting in the Fast and Furious movies. Fascinated, I decided to investigate this further, and found that while the Fast and Furious franchise obviously required something a bit more robust, there actually did appear to be a special version of manual transmissions used in…

Video games are the one thing that's really kept their promises from when I was a kid. We don't have jetpacks or common flying cars or pizzas-in-a-pill, but our video game evolution has been spectacular. Especially driving games.

The Unfortunate Trials of The Tyrant Lizard King, or T-Rex Trying… for short, is an art project by Hugh Murphy centered on the peculiar anatomy of Tyrannosaurus rex in various riffs on short forelimb hilarity. Murphy’s torrent of Cretaceous lolz all began by T-Rex trying to paint his house and has grown to include…

I was with my 15-month old son, Otto, at the playground in Griffith Park the other day and saw something that reaffirmed my faith that maybe, just maybe, some of this current generation of kids will grow up appreciating cars the way I do.

Although we know you didn't need another reason to continue seeking out the dwindling supply of cars with manual transmissions, we're giving you one anyways. A Florida man and woman still have their car because a pair of carjackers didn't know how to drive a stick.

Four men carjacked a 22-year-old student athlete from Belhaven University with the intention of raping her Wednesday night. None of them could operate a manual transmission so they made her drive. She intentionally crashed her car, probably saving her life.

The stick shift may be going the way of the dodo. In a paddle-shifting utopia, its last refuge will be the bathroom sink.