It's almost a guarantee that when you get an old C10 truck to play with, somewhere on it you will find an "upgrade" that just doesn't suit your plan for the project. One item that is often a point of ...

Over 850,000 vehicles sold by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will be investigated by the NHTSA because of around 300 complaints regarding the gear shift selector. Initially, the NHTSA was only ...

The biggest change to Chevy's recently-announced 2022 Silverado 1500 is a major update to the interior, which includes the introduction of a console-mounted gear selector - a first for the Silverado ...

There are some pretty weird shifters and gear selectors in cars these days. With designs that feature everything from push-and-pull systems to a joystick, car manufacturers seem to be getting out of ...

On the heels of actor Anton Yelchin's untimely death, confusing and/or unintuitive automatic transmission shifters are in the news. Chrysler has already recalled its Monostable shifter; we look at ...

A Rivian shifter glitch highlighted the need for less-confusing shifters Before a software update, the shifter for CR's ...

Transmissions, especially automatic transmissions, can be a little bit difficult to understand sometimes. There are valve bodies, brand brakes, selector forks—it’s all a bunch of jargon that often ...

Only 4 percent of American drivers say that the vehicle they most often drive has a manual transmission, according to a May 2023 nationally representative CR survey (PDF) of 2,000 American adults. But ...

Your 2020 to 2023 Chevy Malibu may become subject to an issue resulting in the “Shift to Park” message appearing in the car’s Driver Information Center, even when it is already in Park. This problem ...

As the associate director of vehicle technology at CR’s Auto Test Center, Kelly Funkhouser drives a lot of cars and is always on the lookout for issues related to the usability of various automotive ...