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

Automatic transmission, first invented by the Sturtevant brothers of Boston in 1904, is innovative once more. Expect a growing number of six-speed automatic transmissions, replacing the more ...

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 ...

The standard eight-speed automatic transmission powers either all-wheel drive or rear-wheel drive and is able to launch the luxury beast from 0-60 in 3.7 seconds. Sedans may not be the darling of ...