Mini has confirmed that the new Cooper will not be sold with a manual transmission, revealing that it has officially resigned the stick shift to the history books. “We won’t have a manual, ...

Learning to drive a stick shift while being screamed at by a parent used to be a rite of passage for America’s youth, but times have changed. Studies have shown fewer and fewer people are bothering to ...

Mini is bringing back the manual. The compact carmaker was forced to temporarily suspend production of cars with stick-shift transmissions this spring due to supply chain constraints, but is ...

So it’s come to this: The latest Mini Cooper not only does not offer a manual transmission, but this two-door Cooper S Hardtop, ostensibly among the sportier Hardtop models, lacks any manual control ...

We can only hope that John Cooper, namesake of the Mini Cooper, would be happy to hear that the John Cooper Works lineage continues on into 2025, as Mini launches its highest-performance version of ...

Any Gen X-er or "elder millennial" who has had a conversation with a Gen Z-er about driving a manual transmission has likely come to the shocking revelation that rowing gears is becoming a lost art.

Mini recently brought the manual transmission back to its line-up, and it wants as many people as possible to take advantage of it. It opened the Mini Manual Driving School at the BMW Performance ...

Mini is celebrating its motorsport history with the launch of the 2024 Mini John Cooper Works 1to6 Edition. Limited to just 999 units worldwide, the hot hatch will be sold exclusively with a six-speed ...

As much as I love manual transmissions, I'm not convinced every single vehicle would be better with a third pedal. I mean, what would you really get out of a Chevrolet Suburban with a stick? Clearly, ...

Manual transmissions are an endangered species. At our last count, there were fewer than 30 models for sale on the U.S. market that offer a stick-shift option. And with every new model year that ...

We can only hope that John Cooper, namesake of the Mini Cooper, would be happy to hear that the John Cooper Works lineage continues on into 2025, as Mini launches its highest-performance version of ...