Back in the 1950s, Honda struck gold with the Super Cub — a compact, lightweight scooter built to take anyone anywhere for any reason. It appealed to non-motorcyclists, it beat walking, and to this ...

Currently, none of the conventional transmission designs provide an ideal option for electric vehicles. Conventional manual transmissions interrupt the drive to the wheels during gear shifting and ...

Long before companies like Volkswagen and Porsche got the technology right with DSG and PDK, respectively, many automakers spent years trying and failing to make a manual gearbox work with no clutch ...

One of the perks of having a car equipped with a manual transmission is the inherent joy of rowing up and down the gears while giving your otherwise static left leg some exercise. Sure, shifting in ...

There’s a clear delineation among modern . Basic units only allow clutchless upshifts. The straightforward system detects when the rider applies pressure to the shift peg and cuts the ignition ...

It's hard to put a finger on exactly why driving a car with a manual transmission is so much fun. Is it the control you feel selecting your own gears, that visceral connection formed between human and ...

Heel-and toe shifting is a pretty cool trick that you can pull out to try to impress your car guy buddies on the street. If you get it right, maybe they'll be impressed. If that passenger is your wife ...

Kyle Hyatt (he/him/his) hails originally from the Pacific Northwest, but has long called Los Angeles home. He's had a lifelong obsession with cars and motorcycles (both old and new). It should be no ...

Ben came to MCN back in 1997 fresh from university and dropped plans for a career in law to pursue the dream of writing about bikes for a living. Landing as a junior news reporter he discovered a ...

Honda has introduced E-Clutch variants of the CB750 Hornet and XL750 Transalp in India, allowing riders to shift gears ...

Before any innovation becomes acceptable, let alone mainstream, it needs to go through a bumpy transition, where people don’t know what to make of it, may think that it has no chance, or would rather ...