The ongoing evolution of technology sometimes results in some things being left by the wayside. That statement applies as much to personal technology items as it does to automobiles. First, we lost ...

To this day, people still argue over how exactly you should use the parking brake on hills. Should you put it in neutral ...

Take a look inside the 2023 Toyota GR Corolla and you’ll notice something a little unusual for a new car: an old-school manual handbrake. Not a fiddly little button like the regular Corolla has, but a ...

The presence of the manual handbrake in new cars has continued to decline with just one-in-10 new models equipped with the ‘traditional’ feature. In fact, 91 per cent of new models use an electronic ...

The manual handbrake is becoming an endangered species on the new-car market, with 70 per cent of current models coming only with an electronic parking brake with no manual option, new research has ...

Just 13 per cent of new cars now have a traditional handbrake – and it’s likely to be a thing of the past sooner than expected The number of new cars with a manual handbrake continues to fall, with ...

It’s no surprise that the rise of quick-shifting automatic transmissions has led to an overall decline in traditional manual transmission offerings in the auto industry. In recent years, this has led ...

11:55, Fri, Nov 29, 2024 Updated: 11:55, Fri, Nov 29, 2024 One car interior part that was once a total necessity is now almost extinct. A feature once on all road-going vehicles has rapidly declined ...