Ford promised that its ambitious PowerShift transmission would be a big step forward, but thousands of drivers disagreed.

Many automatic vehicles have their transmission cooled as part of the car's engine cooling system. The transmission fluid passes through plumbing that takes it through (usually) the bottom tank of the ...

We love our 2000 Volvo V70 and know she’s getting old and in need of some TLC. We use her mainly as an in-town second car, and as a tow vehicle when traveling. Her transmission, a five-speed automatic ...

The best transmission additives for performance and efficiency. Unfortunately, we’re all guilty of letting the health of transmission fluid slip our minds and failing to change it or top it off when ...

You might think that by putting your transmission in neutral while going down a long hill, you're saving gas. That may have been true with early automatics, but times change and t ...

My 2007 Holden VE Commodore automatic gearbox is slipping gears even after topping up with fluid. An automatic gearbox relies on fluid pressure as well as volume to make everything work as it should.

Few of us understand how automatic transmissions work nor do we know what it means when they suddenly don't. We slip the selector into Drive, feel the tug of torque, press the accelerator, and get on ...

In it, Rich breaks down his advice based on three distinct scenarios: manual transmissions, automatic transmissions with serviceable filters, and automatic transmissions with non-serviceable filters. ...

The AOD was not a clean-sheet-of-paper design from Ford-it was based off the venerable three-speed C4 automatic. Now that Ford's automatic overdrive transmission has been around for so long, we ...

No one likes to look clueless and it seems few situations provoke a bluff more than taking your car to a mechanic. A new survey by FixMyCar found that 44% don't understand what’s being said to them.