Many modern cars and trucks come with sealed "lifetime" transmission filters that supposedly never need service, but there's ...

Automatic transmissions are highly complex automotive components. They're significantly more complicated and challenging to work on than manual transmissions, which means expensive repairs and ...

Automatic transmissions have been present in cars for over a century now, with the original concept being patented in the early 1920s. Since those early days, automatic transmission design has gone ...

A “Check Engine” light on your dashboard could mean anything from a loose gas cap to a wallet-destroying repair in the offing. For [Dean Segovis], his CEL was indicating a fairly serious condition: a ...

And The Problematic Automatics That Led Us Here ...

Ford is recalling nearly 1.4 million F-150 pickups due to a transmission issue that could lead to an unexpected downshift ...

I know, I know: automatic transmissions make a car automatically lame. I think I can speak for the group when I say driving is typically more fun when you do the shifting. However, every rule has ...

Generally speaking, most automatic transmissions can take a beating, and will last many hundreds of thousands of miles, but that doesn't mean they are invincible. Much like any other part of your car, ...

The Ford Mustang is offered with a ten-speed automatic transmission, and so is the F-150, along with multiple vehicles from General Motors and Honda. Others, like Land Rover, Jeep, and Mercedes-Benz, ...

The modernization of classic Mustangs and Fords with a modular motor or EFI is a common occurrence. Take MM&F's on-going Generation Gap project car, where Tech Editor Mark Houlahan is reviving a '68 ...