Automatic transmissions have been present in cars for over a century now, with the original concept being patented in the early 1920s. Since those early days, automatic transmission design has gone ...

Wondering why so many modern vehicles feature 8-speed automatic transmissions? Discover how they blend supercar shift speeds ...

Not quite solid, not quite liquid, slush is — generally speaking — a mixture of partially-melted snow and water that can make winter driving tricky and messy. So what does it have to do with an ...

Automatic shift transmissions were first introduced on a broad scale in the late 1930s, and while they were a novelty for many years, today they are very near a standard piece of equipment on most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There was a time when you couldn't fake your way into a truck driver's seat. The twin-stick transmissions in those old trucks were ...

Cobus has never been able to keep his car opinions to himself and at age 12, he expressed them in no uncertain terms to a certain motoring magazine’s editor. It was the first of many times he would be ...

Today, let's look at who's to blame for all the cars that insist on shifting for themselves. Arguably, the earliest blame-havers could be Louis-Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor, who were about to show ...

The advent of early automatic transmissions revolutionized the automotive industry and reshaped car ownership habits. By reducing the complexity of driving, these innovations made vehicles more ...

I know, I know: automatic transmissions make a car automatically lame. I think I can speak for the group when I say driving is typically more fun when you do the shifting. However, every rule has ...

Tanks, like most combustion-powered vehicles, rely on transmissions to move under their own power. But do they have manual or ...

Rossler Transmissions (RosslerTrans.com) has become synonymous with building some of the strongest auto transmissions in the industry. This year's Drag Week saw almost all of the heavy hitters—Tom ...