manual transmission

I also sought insights into who, in 2025, wants to master a manual transmission.

Giuseppe Frustaci, the Austin, Texas-based entrepreneur who founded Stick Shift Driving Academy nearly a decade ago, noted that “nobody’s ever going to buy a Toyota Sienna with a manual transmission.”

Persaud, an accountant and part-time driving instructor from Fort Lee, is giving me a tutorial—or rather a refresher course—on how to operate a manual transmission.

She then started the pickup, but apparently discovered she couldn’t manage the manual transmission, so she got out and walked away, leaving the truck to roll forward and strike a fire hydrant, police said.

It also comes with a performance-tuned all-wheel-drive system and a standard six-speed manual transmission.