Auto journalists are a little intimidating, and auto readers even more. So, what I’m about to say is probably the most terrifying thing I’ll write on Driving. Here it goes: I can’t drive a manual. In ...
When most people learn to drive a manual transmission, they're worried about stalling the engine at a traffic light. When I learned how to drive a manual, an instructor was telling me over a ...
As the backlog from the coronavirus pandemic continues to clear, the number of people taking their driving test last year was one of the highest in the past decade, at more than 1.8 million. And while ...
Pulling into the test centre, I felt excitement bubbling up inside of me. I’d just finished my first driving test and my three-point turn, mirror, signal, manoeuvre, and traffic awareness were so ...
Are young adults finally jumping on the #savethemanuals bandwagon? According to a recent consumer survey done by Mini USA, manuals still have an opportunity to shine — which is good for Mini, ...
Is it worth learning to use a clutch when most new cars, including all electric ones, make gear-changing a dying art? Yorkshire-born, Wessex-based widow, writer, motoring and lifestyle journalist, ...
Conventional cars with manual gearboxes will become off limits to future generations of drivers. Why is that so? Because over the last two decades or so, interest in automatic cars has spiked, and it ...
According to new research from EzLicence, nationally the average price of manual driving lessons has climbed to $83.87 compared to $80.61 for automatic. In comparison to last year, it was the other ...
With the backlog created by the coronavirus pandemic clearing, the number of people taking their driving test was almost back to normal last year, at close to 1.7 million. The majority of tests were ...