BMW Z4 M40i “Handschalter” combines an inline-six engine with a six-speed manual transmission and plenty of visceral drama.

If you ask us, every Volkswagen Golf GTI is a good GTI, but it's clear that VW knows what really makes its hot hatch great.

Automatic transmissions used to be shifted by cables. You’d move the shift lever from Park to Drive, and the lever would actually pull a cable attached to the transmission. But now, automatic ...