[Esprit]

:D

[smoothie.]

My friend taught me in 30 seconds. I knew when to clutch, where to shift from video games before the first time I drove, so that helped a bit.

He held the brake, let the clutch out until revs dropped, said thats your friction point and I have loved driving stick since.

[threezero]

stop feeding the troll

[OTG-ZR2]

trial and error

[twitchyzero]

battle gear 4 :troll:

[Rich Sandor]

F355 challenge in the arcade..

and my uncle's 3 speed trabant on a farm in eastern europe.

[joostin]

lansdowne parking lot :D

[-EuroRSN-]

Friend of mine said take this 89 Nissan NX and drive to Maple Ridge and back. By the time i got home i was good! LOL

[BMW135i]

Bought a Ek and learned it @ Pne parking........

[Zyzz]

i learned manual because the car i bought only came with manual in the first 2 production years

bought the car then learned lol

[AzNightmare]

Ask a friend to teach you.

[The_AK]

games mostly but first time actually learning was in some snowed in parking lot in my dad's old 4runner, man the clutch in that thing was stiff!

[mr_baboon]

I bought a Supra that was parked pointing up a hill. Kind of a learn or crash and burn deal.

[SpuGen]

Earliest I remember was when I was 13/14. I sat in my Sister's then Boyfriends del Sol when we went to ImportFest, and got the concept by watching and listening.

At 16, I went around to Dealerships with my mom to go "buy a car" and finally test drove a Celica GTS that was Manual. I stalled SOOOOO much since nobody really explained the friction point thing to me. Did it again at 17 in a new Civic. Stalled once when I parked lol. In the same year, I drove my sister's then Ex (same guy)'s 350Z. Stalled once. That was a hard car to learn from, but by then I knew what to do. None of my friends had a car at this point, and I had an 06 Civic in Auto since I wasn't allowed to drive Manual, and my mom offered to pitch in if I got the Auto.

4 months later I bought my first 240 and drove home from Surrey in snow. From that point I learned how to Heel-toe/rev-match from friends. I also learned how to drift in that car with no prior experience other than watching the Drift Bible. Needless to say, I fell in love with RWD, and all of my future cars will be RWD.

I like Driving Manual, and my next car probably will be Manual, but I still like Automatic depending on the car.

[shenmecar]

bought my car and learned it in 30 minutes at Riverport. Took 3 days to master though

[FerrariEnzo]

when i bought my first car, my beloved 2002 Civic..

my mom ask me why i want a cars thats standard when i dont know how to drive it.. i told her im going to learn it.. she told me i was n idiot to try and learn it on a new car.. haha

after the first day i got it.. when i got used to it on relatively flat roads, i knew i needed to work rollbacks, so i took my car to BOUNDARY Road... started at the bottom of the BIG ASS HILL and worked my way up.. i would stop and drive up a bit then stop again and drive up again.. this way i would learn how to drive up a hill and not freak out.. of course i did this during night, at around 11pm.. that way i wouldnt make a fool of myself in front of people.. haha..

after that session, MAN was i ever good...

[gdoh]

take you car on a steep hill and practice starting off and the rest is easy once you can start rolling without stalling

i went on 160 and 80 in surrey that hill there not much but hard when starting out

[Strzelec]

Went to a parking lot, then found some steepish hills, and mastered that. Was driving without stalling within a few hours of practice

[Timewav3zer0]

Customer cars at work :D

[Berzerker]

Cap College parking lots. They got good hills and lots of space.

Berz out.

[Mugen EvOlutioN]

Customer cars at work :D

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::bullshit:

[jpark]

i learnt it in a 2005 altima ser when i worked at a dealership before lol, first standard car i ever driven, it was pertty cool :D

[boatcaptain]

learn how to drive manual from youtube :p

[skylinergtr]

young drivers

[GabAlmighty]

My friend taught me on our lunch break in his Mazda B2000. We toured around COQ and POMO and he took me up Thermal.

Then I bought a car and fine tuned on that.

[Sgt_Koopa]

Watching my dad and brothers drive. When they would switch gears and use the pedals, I would pretend to be doing the same thing. If you understand the concept, it makes it much easier to apply it. Trying to teach my sister on the other hand.... is a headache. She doesn't know how and why things work the way they do which makes things difficult.

[skyxx]

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::bullshit:

It's true, most lot boys learn how to drive manual at work.

[!oHenry]

Bought a standard car, drove it home. Read a thing online the night before explaining the basics and went from there. Stalled a million times and almost destroyed the clutch on that ride home.

[Phil@rise]

F355 challenge in the arcade..

and my uncle's 3 speed trabant on a farm in eastern europe.

Good friend of mine in North Van owns a Trabant cool little shit boxes.


But I learned by buying a Renault Fuego and jumped in.
Took me about two days to have it down.

[InvisibleSoul]

F355 challenge in the arcade..
Sweet... so I'm not the only one. :lol

[twitchyzero]

trabant exists in canada? :o

[2 n r]

im still not very good at it.. but first learned with my dads old pick up truck
and then my friends car (he needed me to take his car home for him, i told him i could drive stick LOL) i stalled a few times

[insomniac]

youtube then tried it myself and kinda epic failed...

[tonyvu]

dad's buddy lent him a G35 for the weekend, taught me with that.... o man it wasn't pretty lol

[124Y]

In my friend's Golf :lol

[Gumby]

Dad had a manual E34 so I learned the concept by watching him drive. Then I drove it a few times around the block every once in a while. Man that clutch was stiff!

I mastered it after getting a 1997 GS-R and driving that to school daily for 5 or so years. Honda clutches are SO light - love 'em.

I've been driving automatic SUVs after that, and I miss sporty, manual cars...

[mindcruising]

Learned on a hill a very steep hill
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[Qmx323]

learned from watching other doods

and watching doods on youtoob teaching doods how to drive stick for noobs

[underscore]

bought an 87 Celica GT-S at 15 - my parents test drove it for me haha. then once I got my L, my dad took my to an empty parking lot and taught me how to drive stick.

[FN-2199]

I learned through trial and error. Mastered that clutch in two days :D

The hardest part was finding the friction point and getting used to the feel.
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[Kaolinite]

friends Versa and DC5

[keifun]

a girl-friend's tercel...

girls who know how to drive stick are hot:D

[jlenko]

Borrowed an ex-girlfriends car when my old car got torched.. found out when I got out to it that it was stick.. taught myself how to drive it in the parking lot, then drove home.

Automatics have their place... just not in my garage!

[Fast_05_Civic]

Taught myself from watching youtube videos ya'll

[bob_chan]

Learned from my best friend on his Jetta, then purchased a car from Bellevue and drove it up. More or less fine tuned it on the I-5... haha

[OTG-ZR2]

:rofl: at everyone complainin about a stiff clutch.

[TRD Rs200]

MT2 AT ESPOT!

[SilverBlitz]

Customer cars at work :D


:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::bullshit:
It's true, most lot boys learn how to drive manual at work.

:rofl::rofl:
I learn on new corolla's and yaris's since toyota didn't make any sport cars anymore

[josel_atr]

there is no wax on wax off in driving a stick, you learn just by doing it.

[Strzelec]

there is no wax on wax off in driving a stick, you learn just by doing it.

Pretty sure thats talking about drifting my friend :p

[hirevtuner]

learned on my bro in law's civic

[Energy]

Lansdowne parking lot for the flat areas and Aberdeen at night for inclines.

Friend taught me the basics in an Audi and I was forced to learn the rest myself because I had to get to school and work somehow..

[slammer111]

^ Chick friend taught me in her POS Corolla. Never got good at it though, especially N-1 or 1-2. Not enough practice, but I can manage.

Learned again @ PRS. Way smoother on a bike. :D

[JSALES]

learned in my brother's GTI VR6 and practiced a bit in my sister's corolla

[theBlackMarkers]

Taught myself in the s2k.

Bought the car and learned as I drove home. Someone tried to race me, but then I stalled LOL

Best place to practice, the steep ramp going up to the Superstore parking (The one on Marine and Main).

[smk]

On my bros Type-R DC2
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[hear-it-first]

same.. hahah it was kind of mean when I think back now. or maybe..

Customer cars at work :D

[ek1]

at work at car dealership, playing around with any used stick car i could find