Lexus could save the stick shift for EVs, if drivers are willing to pretend. The Japanese automaker is reportedly working on a manual transmission for electric cars.

Range for the front-wheel-drive only, 224-hp Lexus RZ 350e is an estimated 302 miles, up from 266 miles in the ’25 300e. The ...

Would you want a manual-shifting EV?Lexus is developing one.EVs don’t always need the multi-speed transmissions we’ve become accustomed to in an ICE car.

With DIRECT4 all-wheel drive system, One Motion Grip steering system, and the simulated stick shift, all ... Its Debut in the U.S. at Monterey Car Week Lexus LFA's Electric Successor ...

Its subsidiary MINI builds stick shift versions of every car it sells in the U.S. All of Porsche’s 911 Carrera and Targa models can be had with a “standard” transmission.

Takashi Watanabe, chief engineer of Lexus Electrified, described it as a “simulated drive force map with pedal and shift positions to reproduce the feeling of a manual transmission.” ...

Lexus wants to change that. If there’s one thing electric cars don’t have, it’s the pleasure you get from using all four limbs to drive. Lexus is working on it.

Your options are running low if a luxury car with a stick shift interests you. Published: June 7, 2022 at 5:03 a.m. ET. Share. ... BMW and Audi to Lexus and Mercedes-Benz.