Don't let others drive your 5 speed...
29-Mar-2010, 04:07 PM
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Jeez I taught this girl Brandy to drive my civic. She was a really hott, petite girl, and I just wanted to be a nice guy. Well we get in and she's does pretty terrible for a bit, we didn't even move really. Then she finally get the car to move like 15 km/h and smoothly... Were cruisin at that speed, she's scared to shift... Coming to a corner in the camp ground we were in.. I'm like Shift! which she barely pulls off. we get to the corner and were doing like 25 - 30 she can't turn the Wheel!!! I have no power steering and she's mad small/ weak. heading straight off the road towards some trees..... AHHH! YANKED the ebrake and yelled stop! She slams the brake clutch still engaged... my poor Lil Civic.. 
we didn't hit the trees but the car did not like that! stalled right out and everything. I said never again!
we didn't hit the trees but the car did not like that! stalled right out and everything. I said never again!
29-Mar-2010, 04:12 PM
#22
Jeez I taught this girl Brandy to drive my civic. She was a really hott, petite girl, and I just wanted to be a nice guy. Well we get in and she's does pretty terrible for a bit, we didn't even move really. Then she finally get the car to move like 15 km/h and smoothly... Were cruisin at that speed, she's scared to shift... Coming to a corner in the camp ground we were in.. I'm like Shift! which she barely pulls off. we get to the corner and were doing like 25 - 30 she can't turn the Wheel!!! I have no power steering and she's mad small/ weak. heading straight off the road towards some trees..... AHHH! YANKED the ebrake and yelled stop! She slams the brake clutch still engaged... my poor Lil Civic.. we didn't hit the trees but the car did not like that! stalled right out and everything. I said never again!
we didn't hit the trees but the car did not like that! stalled right out and everything. I said never again!i would have been like--->
at that point... damn good to hear you didn't get tree'd
29-Mar-2010, 04:15 PM
#23
Fore some, it's easy. For others, they just can't do it. Don't really know why...
I grew up on a farm, driving standard transmission tractors etc since I was 5...just came naturally. My friend's first car in high school was an 89 mazda 323 5-speed (great little car) and it took him weeks to learn and get it right...It's different for everyone.
I grew up on a farm, driving standard transmission tractors etc since I was 5...just came naturally. My friend's first car in high school was an 89 mazda 323 5-speed (great little car) and it took him weeks to learn and get it right...It's different for everyone.
at 5 years if age holy ****!!! lol what the heck did you do? flykick the clutch and back hand the shifter? lol... at 5 i don't think i even understood the concept lol...
29-Mar-2010, 04:38 PM
#24
how can you guys get mad for teaching someone who doesn't know how to drive 5 speed, for stalling a car? Honestly, it’s not a simple, gas then brake, honestly it is something that takes some skill and practice.you guys are basically saying, give a guy a tool and tell him to do a motor swap...
not everything comes naturally, and not everyone learns at the same pace as others
if anyone is to blame it is you, for NOT doing proper research. If you did a simple search, you would have gotten plenty of responses like these. People telling you their bad experiences with teaching noobs how to drive 5 speed and you could have made your decision from that on whether or not you wanted to still teach
30-Mar-2010, 12:02 AM
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i learned how to drive standard when i was 9 growing up in the philippines, everyone there had stick so you had no choice, and ohh i learned how to ride a motorcycle when i was 8! haha but i would never let anyone touch my car unless I KNEW they know how to drive stick. they would have to buy a beater with a 5spd for me to teach them
30-Mar-2010, 11:08 AM
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30-Mar-2010, 12:03 PM
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boringgg ....
But i do agree with her . My mazda3 is auto and sometimes its a pleasure drivin it and not worrying about changing gears every 2 seconds
although i dont know if i ll ever go back full time to automatic maybe when my kids tell me I m not 20 anymore 
30-Mar-2010, 12:10 PM
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) will never give up their standard cars for auto. 
30-Mar-2010, 12:38 PM
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30-Mar-2010, 12:42 PM
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that's possible, lol.. did you see the honda odyssey on youtube... i don't know if it's a 3.2 TL or CL engine... but they did it i'm at work so i can't get on to youtube.. just type in turbo odyssey it should come up i think.. its an orange one!
30-Mar-2010, 01:59 PM
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So you prefer an auto over stick, be it in traffic or not?
This was my point before, that most women who can drive stick, choose not to or don't see it as something important to learn how to do.
For men, it's kind of important to be able to drive stick (no offense to those who can't). It's kind of like saying you know how to handle/control a car in a superior way.
This was my point before, that most women who can drive stick, choose not to or don't see it as something important to learn how to do.
For men, it's kind of important to be able to drive stick (no offense to those who can't). It's kind of like saying you know how to handle/control a car in a superior way.
30-Mar-2010, 03:10 PM
#39
So you prefer an auto over stick, be it in traffic or not?
This was my point before, that most women who can drive stick, choose not to or don't see it as something important to learn how to do.
For men, it's kind of important to be able to drive stick (no offense to those who can't). It's kind of like saying you know how to handle/control a car in a superior way.
This was my point before, that most women who can drive stick, choose not to or don't see it as something important to learn how to do.
For men, it's kind of important to be able to drive stick (no offense to those who can't). It's kind of like saying you know how to handle/control a car in a superior way.
For guys, I get this feeling if they don’t drive stick they feel like they are losers. They NEED to drive stick to fit in. If you have a civic, teggy, etc and its auto everyone picks on them, so now it seems necessary for everyone to drive stick in you want to fit in, in the car seen.
I am perfectly fine knowing I drive an auto and to be honest I don't care.
Besides, nothing shifts faster than an automatic
