While we have nothing but praise and admiration for Ford’s decision to spread stick shifts around the new Mustang lineup, the fact is that many of you will buy automatics just as your forebears did in the 1960s. Back then, slushboxes were the gooey, horsepower-gobbling Neanderthal ancestors to today’s computer-linked, electrohydraulic torque-thrusters. The basics of clutched planetary gearsets remain unchanged, but today’s performance is entirely different. Congratulations on surviving to the Age of Automatics We Can Live With. READ MORE ››