This week, Ford let me test the first-ever haptic shifter knob on a Shelby GT500. The elegantly simple device vibrates every time the car's engine hits 3000 rpm, reminding the driver it's time to ...

In this touchscreen, push-button, mouse-click world, there’s an undeniable mechanical satisfaction about driving a manual transmission. A perfectly rev-matched downshift proves to the world that ...

Harnessing the power of Ford’s open-source platform OpenXC, 3D printing, Bluetooth and a Xbox 360, one of the Detroit automobile manufacturer’s engineers has created a manual shift gear knob that ...

The automotive world is in a perpetual state of transformation, and while innovations in electrification, infotainment, and autonomous driving seem to get the most attention, it’s the once lowly shift ...