learning stick in a mirage

[Cobrajet]

Best and fastest way to learn a manual is find a big parking lot and practice getting the car moving by feathering the clutch without touching the gas pedal. This forces you to become familiar with the engagement point of the clutch.

The Mirage has low weight, low horsepower, low torque, low gearing, small wheels, and a light clutch pedal. It is very easy to learn to drive a manual in a Mirage, and I know from experience because I taught someone to drive stick in my Mirage.

[foama]

Best and fastest way to learn a manual is find a big parking lot and practice getting the car moving by feathering the clutch without touching the gas pedal. This forces you to become familiar with the engagement point of the clutch.

I agree with that!

In these parts where practically every car is a manual, driving schools ( also mandatory) often extend the stick by tapeing a pencil on top for being used instead of the knob. That way the student learns to shift without exerting any force, being most important for the life of the gearbox.

[Basic]

Best and fastest way to learn a manual is find a big parking lot and practice getting the car moving by feathering the clutch without touching the gas pedal. This forces you to become familiar with the engagement point of the clutch.

Bingo, Bango, Bongo...

I taught multiple people how to drive stick in my TDI Beetle. With bigger injectors, and a tune it was easily able to shift all the way into 4th gear at idle. Hands down stick shift teaching car champeen of the world.