Only about six to eight percent of new cars are rolling off dealer lots with manual gearboxes, so young people aren't learning to drive stick shifts. Here fifteen year old Kenneth Rice, Jr., gets a first lesson from veteran shifter and features reporter Bobby Ampezzan in Rice's father's BMW.
The ‘standard’ transmission is an endangered species, and that’s a real drag
The best thing about test driving a new Honda Civic and its sporty 1.8-liter VTEC engine and go-cart steering is the manual gear shift. That short throw. That …
