Volvo is no stranger to weird shifters — look at the notorious "space ball" manual transmission in the S60R, for example — but I wanted to show some love for the more modern crystal gear selector.

Joshua Spanoudakis got the latest Autopilot 2.0 update and found out that Tesla updated the onboard instruction manuals in his Model X, which now features the same new gear selector: ...

However, not all vehicles with automatic gearboxes have a physical shift lock button on the selector lever. Newer cars with continuously variable automatic transmissions (CVT) and gated gear ...

Only 4 percent of drivers in the U.S. use a car with a manual transmission. Drivers of automatics might be able to choose gears manually with paddle shifters.

That’s what’s known in the automotive world as the “prindle,” the pronunciation that engineers bestowed on the transmission gear selector because it commonly contained the letters PRNDL ...

Shifting the gear lever in your car to N is no different from putting it in the neutral position in a manual car. Technically speaking, N or neutral is not a gear, unlike drive (D) or reverse (R).

A: That’s what’s known in the automotive world as the “prindle,” the pronunciation that engineers bestowed on the transmission gear selector because it commonly contained the letters PRNDL ...

The refreshed Model S and Model X brings another interesting change as there is no drive mode selector (D, N, R, P) on the steering wheel, which also changed to a yoke.

This type of gear selector lever is found in most Automated Manual Transmission (AMT) cars, which essentially automate a manual transmission through hydraulic actuators controlled by an ECU.

A demonstration of the on-screen transmission selector in the new Tesla Model S has been posted to Twitter, showing out drivers can swipe up or down to chose drive or reverse.

The gated manual transmission has become an iconic part of Ferrari history. While Ferrari isn’t the only automaker to feature a gated manual, it’s become almost inextricably linked to the ...

The company has revealed the first pre-production example of the latest 500 Hybrid and included a picture of the interior, which features a six-speed manual gear selector. Fiat has not commented ...