There was a time when you couldn’t fake your way into a truck driver’s seat. The twin-stick transmissions in those old trucks were unforgiving gatekeepers that separated the serious from the curious.

If you're a control freak, late-model electronic transmissions are just what you need to modernize your classic car, and if you decide to go that route, a transmission control module is a must-have.

Forget things like nuclear power, lasers, and freeze-dried ice cream. When it comes to back-engineered alien technology, the automatic transmission is a marvel of seemingly otherworldly intelligence.

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Proper throttle-valve (TV) cable adjustment on GM '80s through early '90s automatic transmissions is crucial for assuring their proper operation. Most GM automatics built during the 1980s through the ...

There are only so many hours you can sit in a queue of traffic, left leg pumping at the clutch every few seconds as traffic crawls forwards, before you realise the value of an automatic gearbox.

Nine is quickly becoming the new six. After years of rule by the six-speed automatic transmission, nine-speed autos are beginning to gain footing, slowly replacing the six-speed as standard. For ...

CARS.COM — Vehicles with an automatic transmission might not have a clutch and a stick shift, but they can still have trouble shifting. At times, drivers may have trouble getting the car out of Park ...

There's an old axiom that a transmission only performs as well as the engine does. Prudent service personnel should check for engine-related trouble whenever an automatic transmission behaves ...