These automakers—including Porsche, BMW, Mazda, Honda, and more—are saving the manuals, one performance car at a time.

One of the biggest changes to the 2018 Ford Mustang was ... did it when we sampled the 10-speed with the EcoBoost four-cylinder. We definitely have a pro-manual transmission bias, but in the ...

Manual transmissions ... six-speed manual, largely because the automatic has taller gearing, so the engine revs slower on the highway, using less gas. We saw the same effect with the Ford Fiesta ...