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.

These benefits also extend to manual trucks, given that pickups will regularly find themselves going off-road as well as navigating through busy traffic. Manual transmissions have also ...

What appears to be the last remaining 2018 Ram 3500 Laramie that you can buy brand new with a manual transmission has ... a janky AM/FM radio and a vinyl bench seat. This one in particular with ...

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

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 ...

In 1987, my parents bought their first new truck, a Dodge Ram ... It had a manual trans hooked to an overtaxed 95-hp slant six. You sat on a bench seat and your headrest was the glass immediately ...

"Three on the tree" refers to the shift lever and transmission ... bench seat could accommodate three people. Sports cars with floor shifters (3- and 4-speed) made some progress in the 1960s. However, ...

With the 2019 Ram heavy-duty trucks abandoning the G56 six-speed, the manual transmission is gone from full-size trucks. Many tears have been shed by enthusiasts; manual transmissions in pickup ...

Neither you nor I can buy a new heavy-duty pickup with a manual transmission ... While the truck is fairly bare-bones with a cloth bench seat and an optional AM/FM radio, it does feature a ...