Let's play a game. Can you make it through the whole video? Thumbs up if you're a survivor. :) The rules are: 1. Drink every time I stall the car. 2. Drink every time I say "okay" or "alright". 3. Drink every time Fenton says "marinate".
I'm 31, drive a manual 18 speed semi for work. Bought a new brz, stalled it at literally the first red light I hit. Everyone stalls. This was a very wholesome video good vibes all around.
I think you and your girlfriend are brave to go into a stressful situation like this learning, and you both had a really good attitude throughout the whole thing.
3:16 "that's I know I found a keeper" lol Zygrene also taught me. An incredible teacher and communicator... Cept when I was too ambitious and stalled on a street... And had cars honking at me. (: Thanks sensei
2:42 THIS. This emphasize on just letting go of the clutch was a life changer for me! I would hate the ones where they tell you to let go of the clutch AND the gas. Thats why they would stall because they have no feeling for the clutch lol.
Really good video and good on Jess for picking it up quickly. I remember how I learned all those years ago and I stalled all the time. My parents had me drive to my grandma's on Sundays for a year to get me used to it. It's much more challenging to learn stick in a city without much leeway and lots of congestion.
Good video and nice patient teaching! Makes me think back to learning stick on a '78 Rabbit with no power steering from my dad. And then how he was driving farm trucks with two gear boxes and no synchros over the hills in LA back in the late 40's and early 50's as a teenager. Technology has changed!
Good on you. I bought my elder daughter a civic and taught her to drive stick. Now she is a pro and loves driving manual as if it is a badge of honor (which it is) My younger one is a little hesitant to start the process - dreading the awkward beginning - but she’s only 15 now. Good luck!
Lol. She did great. I've used this exact method to teach my friends. And spent way more time trying to get them out of first gear. Congratulations drift queen.
One key technique I teach to shift smoothly is rotating your ankle while releasing the clutch pedal rather than lifting your foot straight up. You get better modulation and control over the engagement.
I actually drove a manual car perfectly the very first time, but ONLY because I had been riding dirt bikes since I was 8 years old. I stalled motorcycles so many time when I was first learning on ones with a clutch and gears. 😄
Learned to drive stick driving in first and reverse only moving cars around a VW/Audi dealership as a service porter. I did that for like 3 months before ever driving on the road and grabbing the next gear. It was great
That first part where you get her to push the clutch in is something I do when I'm getting use to a new vehicle, wish someone would have showed me how to drive manual this way, it would have been a lot easier...
Guys!!! This was an informative and great vid! I learned how to drive stick, in Paris, France. Well, almost. I drove from CDG, airport, to our home ( rental ) in a farming community two hours outside of Paris; Basically, in 3rd gear, on the highway; as I never knew what would happen in 4th gear. Yes, It was a very stressful drive. I was stressed 'cause I had my mother in the car. (Car: Ford Festiva ) the stick was high off the gearbox, like a truck, not like today's stick. This was a great video because you were very patient with the young lady. The crickets, were a nice addition 😅. I look forward to more lessons. P.S I though that it was Hysterical, when you first, picked up the car, from the dealership, with all the plastics on the car. Even driving, what? Two hours? ...to a gas station and the protection plastics were still on, the hood. You've got jokes!!! All the best Shaun of NYC 🗽
Car's from the 60's and 70's are the best to learn on cus shifting is such a pain so you develope a feel for it so much, 80's and 90's FR vehicles are good too cus they're cheap so you can ruin them getting use to things without worrying about too many bills. I learned manual on a 94 GTI and a 90 something civic, but am showing this vid to my cousin whos learning.
I just learnt how to drive stick in a 2015 Jeep Wrangler. Needless to say, not remotely the same car LMAO. It had 111k miles, a worn out clutch, extremely vague shifter and I ended up stalling multiple MULTIPLE times. and I'm a car enthusiastic. Your girlfriend was doing AMAZING for a first timer.
I tried to teach my wife to drive stick on my old Versa and she did ok, but had zero interest in learning more. It would have made swapping cars around a lot easier. Your girlfriend did great. 👍
Having to explain how to drive a manual car is very tricky considering it's more a feel based thing. You did a great job of explaining it though. Your GF did great. 👍
I must say she did probably even better than me the first time driving stick, but also to my credit the first stick car I've drove was a Impreza with twin plate clutch, which bite very hard LOL
Tell your GF that she had a great attitude about this…..and you’re a good teacher. You’ll have to revisit this once she’s totally comfortable with this new skill. Would be interesting to know if she’s been bitten by the bug and joins us in saving the manuals
Yup she shouldn’t feel bad at all I just got my first Manual car yesterday and stalled 8 times. The next morning only stalled once. Still learning though I’ll get there eventually
I test drove one of these cars recently as I intend to get the GR86. I scared the dealer by asking how to drive an auto (the test car was an auto) I have never driven an auto before. I do remember learning to drive - all we ever had at the time were manual cars and this brought back a lot of memories. btw, I'm confused, why can't she lift the handbrake?
i want to teach my girlfriend how to drive stick but im not the best teacher. thanks zygrene for this vid tho cuz now i can just copy how you explain it XD
So weird watching this. In the UK we all drive manual and it is almost rare to find someone who drives automatic. But our licenses convert. So a manual holder can drive automatic. But an automatic holder cannot drive manual. We also call the clutch and gas combination the 'biting point'. So we say 'reached biting point' once the clutch and gas is at a point where you edge forwards in first then move onto second and so on.
is the thing you are talking about with the rpms going up after shifting the hill assist? I 've been seeing several videos of people turning it off and i don't know what it is (not having driven a modern stick car for a bit)
Question, does the BRZ not stall at the clutch's bite point without any gas? Seems like it from what I could make out. I'm from Europe and have never had an automatic. All of my cars, however, would stall in first without revving up the engine to at least 1000-1200 rpm.
The 2022 BRZ probably has enough torque to start without gas on a flat surface. The old Civics I've driven will also stall in first gear unless you rev it, but those things have like 100hp and about as much torque as a lawnmower.
I´m the worst teacher for manual, I feel the need to explain how the combustion process works and how the pressure plate spins with the engine but the clutch plate moves with the transmission. But then again I get asked questions like "why can´t I just drive on one gear all the time" and I hate people who say "because I say so".
I shift at most 1500rpm unless I'm overtaking. Maybe that's why I beat factory claim fuel efficiency by a large margin. And I also put gas before releasing the clutch, bad habit from 2 stroke bike. I still remember stalling dozens of times bringing my first bike home.