Paddle shifters, levers you can find located behind the three and nine o'clock positions on your steering wheel, are my favorite aspect of many Subaru models. They allow you to take manual control ...

Paddle shifters used to be found exclusively in high-performance sports cars, but these days, they’re featured regular cars like the new Ford Escape and even the Honda Odyssey minivan. But don’t ...

The concept of paddle shifters is pretty straightforward. When you hit the plus paddle, the transmission shifts up, and the minus paddle makes it downshift. This is the case for most cars with paddle ...

For a long time hot rodders have had to make tough choices. One of these was choosing between a manual and automatic transmission. For the road course nothing beats rowing through the gears manually.

An expert driver can shift gears and get the most performance out of a vehicle. Whether extending the gear to wring every ounce of power out of the engine, downshifting to pass an adversary, or ...

Years ago, manual transmissions were the only choice for performance sports cars, including F1. But in the 1980s, F1 cars began to change to paddle shifters, with Ferrari being the technology leader ...

With the unveiling of the facelifted 2010 911 Turbo, Porsche quietly announced that the car would be available for the first time with a proper two-paddle steering wheel where the driver needs to pull ...

Two separate patents reveal how the German automaker is finding ways of making cars better in every respect. Porsche patents heated shift paddles to enhance comfort in cold weather driving. A second ...