Paddle shifters, also known as a flappy-paddle gearbox, are a mechanism used to control and select gears on a vehicle's transmission. The paddle shifters are positioned behind the steering wheel, ...

Only 4 percent of American drivers say that the vehicle they most often drive has a manual transmission, according to a May 2023 nationally representative CR survey (PDF) of 2,000 American adults. But ...

Paddle shifters are levers positioned behind one or both sides of a car’s steering wheel. They are usually attached to the back of the steering wheel and turn with the wheel, but on some cars, the ...

It's a gearhead given: the faster you can rip through the gears, the faster you get from point A to point B. We submit that this is true for any transmission, whether manual or automatic. Even those ...

Road racers who literally have to wrestle their cars around the road course will certainly appreciate the MasterShift Manual Shifter. It enables you to shift your manual H-pattern transmission while ...

Owners of the 2023 Maserati Grecale SUV may be surprised to learn that squeezing the right-hand, or “plus” paddle shifter behind the steering wheel can quickly shift the car from Reverse into Drive at ...

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 ...