Hello, human beings, and welcome to this week's version of Letters to Doug, where we tackle some of the key issues affecting the automotive industry, and also shifter placement. At first, I thought ...

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 ...

You may recall I had swapped out an old Hydromatic for a new Phoenix Transmission TH400 in the '60 Catalina I'm working on. Not long after the swap I decided to go a step further and switch the car ...

As far as a driver is concerned, one new-car manual transmission is pretty much like another. Sure, the transmissions themselves might be different in how they’re oriented in the chassis, and maybe ...

General Motors’ transition to electric vehicles affords the automaker a wealth of opportunities to develop new technology, and with it, the human inputs needed to control that technology as well. For ...

Peterbilt has announced that its ergonomically designed column-mounted shifter will be standard equipment on Model 579 and 567 trucks equipped with the new Paccar Automated Transmission. The ...

You may recall I had swapped out an old Hydromatic for a new Phoenix Transmission TH400 in the '60 Catalina I'm working on. Not long after the swap I decided to go a step further and switch the car ...