If you're a new driver -- or you're new to the world of automatic transmissions -- it's always helpful to brush up on what the letters on the shifter actually do. Alongside P, R, N, and D, plenty of ...

There's something about a gear shifter that brings the cool factor of a car to another level. The mixture of looks combined with what you know it's connected to in order to deliver more performance is ...

Since first trying a quickshifter on the Panigale 899 and then having fitted one to the Street Triple R, it was only a matter ...

There's a bit of mystery behind the operations of a car's transmission. Unlike the engine, which receives a lot of attention, a car's transmission can be confusing to novice drivers, particularly an ...

It’s often unwise to mess with perfection. It’s usually even more unwise to start modifying cars without really understanding what it is you’re doing, but here I am, tinkering in all sorts of ...

Transmission shifters have come in all shapes, sizes and locations since the beginning of time. Even manual transmissions could be had with shifters on the steering column (“three on the tree”) in ...

For the uninitiated, a column shifter is exactly what it sounds like — a gear shifter, mounted on the steering column. While some younger readers may not be familiar with them, most Americans will ...

This is the age of the paddle shifter / bump shifter. You can get one in the new Camaro, and you'll see it on racetracks, as the computer-controlled automatic slowly eats away at the notion that ...

I love a good shifter. It can transform a ho-hum car into something that is genuinely a blast to drive. Hell, in some cases, with the right design and engineering, a shifter can even be a work of art.

GM's horseshoe-style automatic transmission floor shifter looks great sitting in '68-'72 Chevelles, '68-'72 Camaros, '70-'72 Monte Carlos, and '68-'69 Impalas. But in stock form, the horseshoe shifter ...