[beginnerSTi05]

I bought my STI in Dec. 05 and it is my very first manual car -driven automatics most my life. The salesman who sold me the car drove it to my house and gave me a 1 hour crash course on how to drive a stick. And also i became a member of this forum and posted and everyone chipped in and gave their advice and tips on driving. I reseached on driving a MT AWD and found this FAQ on NASIOC

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hreadid=587096.

I hope this helps a bit. It helped me a lot

[fourseasonsandles]

I learned the basics for for stick a few years ago on a couple of old beater trucks and was terrible at it. It wasnt until my roommate picked up an 03 Civic and let me take it out a couple of times to practice did i get smoother with it. The basic principle still applies to the STi as other cars, but the clutch is really grabby and enguages sooner than any other car I have driven and I am still working on perfecting the hill take off at lights. In time you will always get used to a car, but take everyone elses advice and dont learn stick on the STi. You dont want to ruin something you spent so much time and money to get.

[Fast_STi]

Originally Posted by KarlSTI

Go to the Suby dealer and tell him that you have lots of stick shift experience and you want to test drive the STi. Get in with him and just proceed to grind and mishift all over the place. Pretend you know what you're doing.....shift real fast and keep the accelerator floored. Afterwards, tell him you would prefer to close the deal on a different color.......

Nice ^^^

[Desibhar]

I learned on an 88 cheyenne when I was inbetween cars. Learning stick shift on a truck is the best, because if you can master shifting in those monsters, sports cars are cake!

[potay]

I came across this exact problem a few years ago. I wanted to buy a manual WRX (before the STIs were out) and wanted to test drive it first, but I had very few hours behind the wheel of a standard. I looked all around for a rental company, and found that in Canada (as far as I could find) rentals are all autos now. Instead, I paid for a 1 hour road lesson through AMA on driving stick, and got enough advice in the right direction to be fairly smooth in the AMA provided Honda Civic. Next was a trip to the economy class dealerships in the city. I test drove all the low end manuals I could find, since the dealers were more likely to let me take the cars out by myself. Each time, I'd take the car out for 1/2 hr or so and just practise in a nearby residential zone. Moreover, the economy class cars always have less power so it was more forgiving when I made shifting mistakes or timed the clutch poorly.

When I finally bought my stick shift, it came easily to me. Hope that helps.

[STi05']

I learned how to drive stick in my STi.. I wish I had been able to find a manual car to learn on first but I had no one who wanted to let me.

[SoaReS]

my mother taught me back when i was like 13

[wayne53]

My dad taught me how to drive stick in my 05 LGT in an hour

[rgt]

I had a mental block when trying to learn to drive stick. After multiple tries over many years i finally had the door opened when someone finally made a simple observation and explained it to me:

Let the clutch out real slow and forget the gas pedal. The car will start to move without you pressing the gas...

The 1-2 shift is the *****.