The rise of the automatic transmission led to a change in automobile manufacturing as more and more drivers chose to leave manual transmission vehicles behind. The convenience and smoother driving ...

Charles Dean, who has died of cancer aged 59, was an international amateur vintage racing champion whose early passion for motoring developed into a full-scale operation which he ran out of his home ...

When Ford Motor Co. was created in 1903, it was the latest in a string of companies Henry Ford had been associated with in an attempt to build and sell moving vehicles. The company we know today was ...

In the early 1990s, Volkswagen had one of the most unique and interesting cars on sale in the United States—the Mk3 Golf Harlequin. Under its skin, the VW Harlequin was just a normal Mk3 Golf but its ...

For the longest time, people who wanted to learn how to drive had to do it using a stick shift or a manual transmission. Before the turn of the century, most cars came with this type of transmission.