There’s much more to it than that, though, and most people have no idea what’s going on inside their cars’ transmissions. A manual transmission has helical gears that are moved around by a ...

Fuel economy and emission regulations are self-explanatory as well, more so when you remember that torque-converter automatic transmissions are oftentimes more frugal than their three-pedal ...

In the WRX, however . . . The automatic is the Subaru continuously variable transmission. It's not actually any slower than the six-speed manual, posting 0-to-60-mph and quarter-mile times that ...