Face it. It's just not that exciting to race an automatic-equipped car. No one gets excited about loading a converter and clicking a shifter to get down the track. But sidestep a clutch in your best ...

Automotive clutches have been in use for more than a century, including the Mustang for 50 years. When the Mustang was introduced in 1964, manual three-speed and four-speed models used crude ...

In the world of high-performance cars, you'll hear the term "dual-clutch transmission" get thrown around quite a bit. It's a staple of modern performance and all sorts of high-end cars ranging from ...

Today's crop of softer Homo sapiens really make things difficult for driveline engineers. As if getting a clutch to hold up behind an 800hp LS small-block isn't already challenging enough, today's ...

We began our journey through the drivetrain last month with an analysis of flywheels; now we move on to the clutch system. The clutch basically engages and disengages the transmission, and thus power ...