Automatic transmissions have been present in cars for over a century now, with the original concept being patented in the early 1920s. Since those early days, automatic transmission design has gone ...

While automatic transmissions are so common now that they've largely supplanted stick shifts. When was the first automatic ...

Depending on how you look at it, either a lot or not very much has changed about the way bikes shift gears since the mid-19th century. A lot has been refined along the transmission path, in which your ...

When it comes to transmissions, cars used to fall under two categories: manual and automatic. However, a third type of ...

The automotive industry is constantly evolving, but rarely does something come along that changes the game entirely. However, when the ZF 9HP nine-speed automatic transmission debuted in early 2013, ...

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 ...

Today, let's look at who's to blame for all the cars that insist on shifting for themselves. Arguably, the earliest blame-havers could be Louis-Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor, who were about to show ...