a practical bench seat, a smooth and torquey inline-six motor, and a fun manual transmission. These desirable attributes, once common among American trucks, have been disappearing at an alarming rate.

Last Column-Mounted Three-Speed Manual Transmission The 1987 Chevrolet ... three-across bench seats remain available in various trucks and SUVs.

Back in February, SEAT announced it had won the contract to produce a new transmission for the Volkswagen Group. The cog swapper in question is called MQ281, a manual transmission that was ...

The "three-on-the-tree" column-mounted manual ... truck from the 1970s, as many truck shoppers opted for the cheapest possible vehicle (and column shifters work well with bench seats), but it ...

This rig allowed the use of a big, cushy bench seat and three-abreast seating ... came off the assembly line with three-on-the-tree manual transmissions. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, most ...