A semi-automatic transmission combines the best features of both modern automatic and old-school manual gearboxes. Here's how they work.

Do you like to rest your hand on the gear lever while on the road? Not a good idea, as that could damage the gearbox. Franziska Gabbert/dpa If you have a car with a manual transmission, do you rest ...

Automatic gear selectors look fairly simple from the outside. There's a lever with a release button that when pressed, allows the user to move between Park, Neutral, Reverse, Drive, and sometimes a ...

Peugeot has decided to do away with the 208 and 2008’s protruding gear lever for automatic transmission models, where instead you’ll now get a supposedly more ergonomic design featuring a small lever ...

Q: What do the numbers and letters mean on an automatic transmission: 1, 2, D, L, S, etc? A: That’s what’s known in the automotive world as the “prindle,” the pronunciation that engineers bestowed on ...

So, you've installed a later-model automatic transmission in your early Chevy and are wondering to yourself, "What's the easiest way to hook up the shift linkage?" If it was an auto-shift model to ...

A “Check Engine” light on your dashboard could mean anything from a loose gas cap to a wallet-destroying repair in the offing. For [Dean Segovis], his CEL was indicating a fairly serious condition: a ...