If you've ever paid attention to the number of gears in your transmission, you might've noticed that those numbers have gone up over the years. Early automatic transmissions like the GM Hydra-Matic ...

CARS.COM — Wondering what all those numbers and letters mean on the gear shifter you have in your car? That’s what’s known in the automotive world as the “prindle,” the pronunciation that engineers ...

Automatic transmissions are the transmissions of choice in today's diesel realm. They've come a long way over the last decade, and are now beefier and more complex than ever before. This is an effort ...

There are different arguments that can be made both for and against automatic and manual vehicle transmissions. Manual transmissions offer more nuanced control and an opportunity to better optimize ...

Forget things like nuclear power, lasers, and freeze-dried ice cream. When it comes to back-engineered alien technology, the automatic transmission is a marvel of seemingly otherworldly intelligence.

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 ...

We've recently talked about how naturally aspirated V6s and V8s are going by the wayside, but there's another powertrain component that is slowly fading into obscurity: the six-speed automatic ...

An automatic transmission is any transmission that doesn’t require the driver to shift gears. There are more types of automatic transmissions than ever before, including conventional torque-converter ...