Plenty can go wrong with a car's transmission — there are a l lot of moving parts, after all. Though transmission problems rearing their metaphorically ugly heads will most likely mean a trip to ...

With a manual, you’re not simply pulling a paddle and letting the transmission do all the hard work. You’re 100 percent in charge.

And now, only about 30 new cars can be bought with a manual transmission in the U.S. The new manual car list has been shrinking for years. We've focused on it before, because, well, it sucks.

Manual sales have declined consistently for decades, and they now represent a tiny fraction of the market. EVs outsold manuals for the first time in 2019, in fact.

Porsche says that when it decided to offer a six-speed manual in the previous 991-generation 911 GT3, the take rate for this transmission was nearly 80 percent.

When Dodge updated the Charger's exterior and powertrain options for its seventh generation, that seemed like a perfect opportunity to give it an H-pattern manual transmission.

Porsche has significantly limited manual transmission availability for the 2025 911 lineup, but the company hasn’t ruled out reversing course—if enough customers ask for it.