In today’s edition of What the Heck, we have the strange case of Ford wanting to put what is essentially a fake manual ...

A recently published patent application describes a simulated manual transmission shifter lever for Ford's future electric ...

Ford’s new electric vehicles could soon see a retro addition: manual gear shifters. A patent application from the automaker ...

A manual transmission is not inherently new, but legacy automaker Ford (F) has a whole new plan for it to show up somewhere ...

Back in 2022, Toyota filed a patent for a virtual transmission and tested the ‘Manual BEV concept’ in a Lexus UX300e. That ...

Throughout the 1994-2003 period in which the 7.3L Power Stroke was in production, two manual transmissions were offered by Ford in these heavy-duty trucks. Initially, a five-speed ZF5 transmission ...

Ford is patenting a way to give EVs a stick shift. The move is aimed at making EVs more fun to drive but very few young ...

Patented in 2023 and released in March this year, the new patent filed by Ford describes a new type of gear lever, not for gear shifting per se, but for mimicking the familiar feel of a manual transmi ...