Andy recently spent a week in a $40,000 Ford Maverick, and as much as he enjoyed the truck, there was one thing he couldn’t get past — the shift knob ... every single automatic on every ...

I told him I couldn’t go from a manual gear shift to a flimsy little twist knob. What is your opinion ... there’s nothing wrong with them. Automatic transmissions used to be shifted by cables.

and no awkward stalls as you learn to operate the shift knob, clutch, and gas pedal simultaneously. But for all the great things about automatic transmissions, they're not bulletproof, and there ...