With a foot on the clutch and a hand on the gear stick, Allan MacDonald is doing his best to keep a love of the stick shift alive. But the York Region driving instructor is on a lonely mission.

You can't call a stick shift "standard" any more, when an automatic is usually the only option. Just 3.6 per cent of new car buyers in Canada so far this year opted to shift their own gears.

There may be some rubberiness to this six-speed’s action between the gates, but there’s also a notchy assurance familiar to stick-shift BMW owners since about the early ‘90s. Crucially ...

There’s also the similar Stick Shift Driving Academy, which launched in 2017 and has helped more than 14,000 people around the US (in 113 cities, with 232 teachers) learn to deal with a clutch.

Ferrari has not offered a stick shift since 2012, but it may return in a future Icona series model, chief product development officer Gianmaria Fulgenzi told Car Sales.© Courtesy of Ferrari ...

Secret Service agents will learn to drive stick shift after GM delivered 10 vehicles to an agency training center. Two have manual transmissions.

Limited-run cars like the BMW Skytop could also be made more special with a six-speed stick, although that said, BMW has not built any candidates for limited production with a manual since the Z8 ...

Electric vehicles don't need gear shifts like traditional automobiles. A patent published by Ford shows the automaker could consider having a device that mimics shifting in EVs. Get special access ...

Last year, less than one percent of the new vehicles sold in the US included a stick shift. Roughly three decades ago, that proportion was much higher, somewhere between 25 and 30 percent.