The future of the stick shift looks dim. Performance icons like Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren no longer offer traditional manuals. Even on enthusiast models like the Corvette, less than half of ...
While the manual gearbox as we know it is a dying breed, a group of manufacturers are preserving its DNA in a different way.
Manuals are a dying breed in the modern car market. Especially in North America, most of the cars that are sold have an automatic transmission, but we're not here to talk about manuals vs. automatics.
In this video, I explain what a Lenco planetary transmission is and its purpose. I will detail how planetary gear sets work using a model I created and discuss why Lenco planetary transmissions are ...