When it comes to hot cars, sounds play a big role. Take the nitro burners, for instance; without the sounds they make, they may as well be just another alcohol dragster. Or where would the Pro/Street ...
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 ...
Unless you can shift like Ronnie Sox, automatic transmissions are simply more consistent when racing on the dragstrip. When it comes to street driving, however, most will agree that there's no better ...
Ultra-rare car parts are a weird high-end market of their own. Nailing down the value of aftermarket parts is hard, and it comes down to scarcity, desirability, and one person who wants to make their ...
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 ...
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 ...
You're not going to find it in the next car you drive off the lot, but a Ford engineer has developed a fairly novel approach to making a manual transmission a bit easier to adjust to: a vibrating ...
Here’s a silly hack for you guys. Turn your head (or anything else really) into a stick shift handle! Anyway, once you’ve gotten your 3D scan turned into a .STL file, it just needs to be imported into ...
The rotary selector is a different design and has not been the subject of an investigation or a recall for this issue prior. But, like the Monostable shifter, the rotary dial shifter operates ...
A shifter doesn't need to be interesting or beautiful to accomplish its task. So when an automaker puts in the effort to design a cool gear selector, we have to recognize it. These are some the ...