I realized there was something different about my newly rented Ford Edge when, while blocking traffic in Manhattan, I reached for the console shifter—and caught nothing but air.

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 ...

With the 1500 TRX, the Ram brand has proven that its half-ton pickups don’t necessarily need a rotary shifter. Someone in Michigan appears to like the console shifter of the TRX a lot because the ...

The first column shifter in America was introduced in 1938, with the goal of freeing up space in the center console for a larger front bench seat. During that time, manual transmissions usually had ...

In most new cars, when a driver moves a shift lever, an electronic signal is sent to the vehicle’s computer, which then engages the correct gear. Because there is no longer a mechanical link, these ...