How to drive stick shift? Options

[mrgrape]

k so im getting a new car soon
and no matter what its gonna be a stick bc i dont like automatic

anyone know where i can learn? so i know how to drive before the test ride?
my friends both have stick but they dont wanna teach me in their cars =[
camaro Z28 and golf gti

but yeah somewhere where i can get started
or if theirs a practice sesh

[RickJamesBish]

Once again, that sounds terrible...have fun wrecking a new car.

[Taskbot]

Once again, that sounds terrible...have fun wrecking a new car.

Hahaha you're acting like this is something completely different. A car is a car. Standard or Automatic, it makes little difference when it comes to actually being on a road because the only thing that is really changed is getting it to move and shifting. He can still swerve and stuff, plus he'll probably have someone in the passenger seat.

When I learned to drive standard I was thrown into the mix. Me and my dad were test driving a 96 Accord Coupe and he stopped at the side of the road and was like "okay now you drive."Although it took FOREVER to launch that thing, The clutch was definitely not stock, it was like a light switch. I managed to get it back to the used car place. The scary part though was pulling the thing onto a 4 lane 80km/h highway. I thought I was going to stall it for sure.

Still, you should do a little parking lot stuff before you actually take it to the road but when you take it to the road, take it away from the city to the countryside. If you ever get in anyone's way just put on the blinkers. There's really nothing that bad about it.
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It should be alright to let your friend test drive the car, I mean for all the owners know he could be buying it and he should still be okay to drive it back to your place, transfer of ownership usually happens after you have the car in your possession but so long as you have the signed ownership you should be okay.