I know the following sentence may subject me to ridicule from my fellow gearheads, but I’m going to state it anyway: I think the Cadillac CT4-V Blackwing is better with an automatic transmission.

Throughout the 1900s, cars with manual transmissions slowly gave way to those with the ability to shift between gears automatically. Early automatic transmissions with names like Hydra-Matic, Dynaflow ...

Because we use them every day, the operation of a car seems simple, but a car is a very complex machine. One of the most complex systems in the typical vehicle is the automatic transmission. This ...