In a car, the transmission (often called the gearbox) acts as a conduit through which power produced by the engine is supplied to the wheels, using a system of gears and gear trains. Different gears are used to send the right amount of power to the wheels to help the car operate smoothly at a given speed.
Modern cars offer two transmission types – manual and automatic. Vehicles with manual transmissions, or stick shifts as they are sometimes called, require you to manually…
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