The best modern M car, offering a powerful inline-six paired with a manual transmission, can be had for roughly $50,000.

I drove the 2025 BMW M2 and share my honest review of its performance, handling, comfort, and everyday usability. It offers a ...

Manual gearboxes may be dying elsewhere, but this new patent shows one carmaker still wants to make them smarter and harder ...

The performance may be brilliant, and reportedly BMW quality is better recently, but for a major spend like this, overweight and unattractive is a showstopper. Insurance rates are probably annoyingly ...

It's probably only a matter of time before the manual transmission dies off, but that day is not today. BMW buyers made that clear last year, with more than half of all M2 buyers in the U.S. choosing ...

In recent N55 and S55 BMW engines, a spun crank hub is a relatively common issue, and it's often caused by downshifts that ...

You better act fast if you want a new car with a manual – especially a BMW. In an interview with Italian-language magazine Quattroruote, Frank Weber, a BMW board member, said the days of row-your-own ...

Remember when every supercar and high-performance version of regular cars featured manuals? Those days are long over, and there are four big reasons for the manual's obsolescence. Enjoyable though it ...

There was a time, not that long ago, when the automotive industry tried to convince us that the future of performance was the motorsports-inspired dual-clutch transmission. But now, BMW‘s M division ...

BMW has been gradually phasing out manual transmissions in its lineup—even in its storied M sports cars. The rationale is simple for the automaker: Most people don’t want them anyway, they introduce ...

The shift to EVs of course makes a transmission of any kind unnecessary. Need a hobby? Find a sports car or car with interesting technical history, with a manual, and buy it as a weekender. Join a ...