The 2020 Jeep Gladiator has been getting lots of attention lately, but unfortunately, my own Jeep pickup—a 1985 Jeep J10—has not. The descendant of the original Gladiator in my driveway has had a ...

The NV4500 five-speed transmission in our high-mileage diesel-powered '95 Chevy 2500 pickup was exhibiting some bad behavior. Part of the problem was that the clutch wasn't releasing completely when ...

TREMEC's T-5 five-speed transmission has been in continuous production for more than 35 years. Originally designed and manufactured by BorgWarner and first offered in the early 1980s, the venerable ...

General Motors used a wide array of manual transmissions in its vehicles over the years, but the four-speed gearboxes from Muncie and Borg-Warner are undoubtedly the most popular. The Muncie ...

There's got to be a jillion SM465 transmissions out there. Manufactured from 1968 to 1988, General Motors put them in everything from 1/2-ton pickups to 2 1/2-ton dump trucks. But there hasn't been ...

The perpetual debate between automatic and manual gear has made the transmission system much more complicated. A transmission system allows the vehicle to change gears by transferring power from the ...

Bryan Berg drives a semi with a 13-speed transmission, and he’s been double-clutching and shifting gears in his rig for 30 years. He’s not about to start driving a truck that shifts automatically. “I ...

When this story was written in 2013, it asked this question about automated and automatic transmissions in over-the-road trucking: "Will they finally be able to make a strong inroads?" According to ...