A lot of cars only come with an automatic transmission nowadays, but a lot of them also offer a manual or sport mode, ...

Despite all the benefits of a CVT transmission, it does have some drawbacks. A gear-based CVT is looking to address these ...

In the automatic transmission, clutches are hydraulically activated such that each of the planetary-set components—the internal gear (1), the planet gears (2), or the sun gear (3)—con either ...

Every automatic transmission car has a neutral gear, but you won't find yourself using it very often. Here's when you should ...

Toyota: Toyota uses a launch gear, which acts like the first gear in a regular automatic transmission. It then works as a CVT ...

Toyota introduced its first continuously variable automatic transmission CVT, in itself a type of automatic transmission, in 2000, dubbed the K110.Some Toyota models that use a CVT include the ...

How Does an Automatic Transmission Work? A modern automatic transmission uses one or more sets of epicyclic or planetary gears (consisting of a sun, planets, and a ring gear) to achieve many ...

One of the biggest automotive technological developments in the past 20 years is the dual-clutch gearbox, also known as the dual-clutch transmission (DCT).It’s been a performance game (and gear ...

Here’s How Koenigsegg’s New Gearbox That’s Both A Gated Manual And A 9-Speed Automatic Actually Works. This genius invention might save the manual transmission for the next generation ...

Most automatic transmissions, however, can do much more than just go forward, go backwards, and stop your car from rolling into traffic. Some have lower gears you can shift into.