Throughout the 1900s, cars with manual transmissions slowly gave way to those with the ability to shift between gears ...

In a few cases, however, the latest automatic-transmission designs, including six-speed automatics, actually surpass their manual counterparts. For example, the Mazda3 i gets one more mpg with its ...

A continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT) differs from a multi-speed transmission in many ways, the most notable is that a CVT does not actually shift gears like a multi-gear automatic ...