WIth the new Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate setting the UK on a pathway to 2035 when new petrol and diesel (ICE) cars will be banned from sale, choosing to take a driving test in an automatic car is ...

Caitlin Graham wanted to learn to drive in an automatic car as she hoped the test would be quicker to pass without having to get to grips with a gear box. But the 22-year-old says she had little ...

EXPERTS have warned that learning to drive a manual car could become “obsolete” by 2040, as automatic-only lessons have surged. Gen Z could be the last generation to use traditional transmissions, ...

Is it worth learning to use a clutch when most new cars, including all electric ones, make gear-changing a dying art? Yorkshire-born, Wessex-based widow, writer, motoring and lifestyle journalist, ...