Simply put, D means drive, and D3 means Drive-3. When you put your car in D3, that means you've set third gear as your highest setting, whereas you can reach every gear of your car in D.

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From the May 1980 issue of Car and Driver. Tom Wolfe invented attaboys for the as­tronauts, but if Honda had introduced the Accord ten years ago, he'd surely have done the same for it. Attaboys, as ...

This year, the venerable Volkswagen Golf GTI bid farewell to the manual transmission. It’s the end of an era, the divorce of ...

Most automatic transmissions, however, can do much more than just go forward, go backwards, and stop your car from rolling into ... to wish you'd already been in gear rather than fiddling around ...