Learning to Drive a Stick Shift - Obtaining car?

InigoMontoya
Fri, 29 Jan 2016 19:12:23 +0000

Driving a manual transmission certainly isn’t going the way of the horse and carriage. It appeared to be for a while - in 2007, last time I bought a new car, the dealer looked at me like I was from outer space when I asked about availability of manual transmission vehicles. He said even pickup trucks were hardly being produced with manual transmission anymore. Last fall when I had to replace the car, not only were Corollas available in manual, they had quite a few on the lot.

I drove a stick shift for over 20 years, and never hesitated to teach others how to drive. And somehow I still managed to get over 100K miles out of a clutch. Didn’t need to replace the brakes as often either.

My sister learned how to drive a manual transmission on her way home from the dealership with her new car