just remember to let tthe clutch out slowly.

 

Practice driving a manual first .... or you are going to look like a fool when people try to race .................. stall. Just warnin' ya .... YOU WILL get tried sooner or lata ...

 

The evo was my first manual. Although i have driven other manuals, this one i far different than others. Getting it to move smoothly is tricky and takes a lot of practice

 

I had to teach my friend how to drive his brand new STi. For him it was hard at first but he got the hang of it after a late night and half a day of driving it. However, there is no telling what he did to that car. The noises the STi made when it stalled out, hard starts, ect while he was learning was awful. Like the others have said try to learn in a beater car, or get one of your friends to teach you. If you really want to get the EVO, I suggest learing how to drive in a back parking lot like an office complex. Then take the car out on the road late at night so that you do not have to worry about traffic. Just remeber, you don't f**k the clutch, you make love to the clutch.

 

I learned stick on my Evo the night I bought it, in a parking lot. Spent 1.5hrs and I was out and about on the streets. I knew theoretically how to drive it, just never tried it much on real manual cars. Then I spent the next week just driving at night where the traffic was light. Don't take it out in rush hour til you really know how to downshift smoothly, hehe.

 

If you haven't learned well enough on that truck, the best way to learn on the evo would be this:

When have clutch depressed and the car stopped, slowly let the clutch out til the car starts moving a little (very little). You may feel the car stuttering and about to die out, and thats when you need to give it a little gas, but don't floor the gas! When the car moves faster, slowly let the clutch pedal out more, til its fully out.

 

Allright, thanks guys for your opinions. Looks like i'll probably be getting one once i have proper funds. I'll have my friends that already have been driving stick for awhile to help me out.

 

get the evo.. if u need more practice... get someone to rent a car for you thats manual =P get insurance its only like 25$ for rentals... then u will have no worries

 

dude...that really sounds so lame and sort of stupid that you are getting a LANCER EVOLUTION and you dont know how to drive a manual transmission..and you are planning to race right away...why just dont get a civic?? and beat the crap outta it

 

do they even have stick rentals? i never saw one at budget or enterprise, etc.

 

Nope I checked all the rental places in my area. No one has any stick shift cars available. All are automatic.

 

I'm not plannign to race right away. I'm gonna break it in, and learn how to drive it first. I'm not that dumb.

 

I'm very sorry, sir, for I am so lame and sort of stupid too .

 

that fool is just a hater notice he has a lancer not a evo

 

You may want to budget $2000 in your quest to learn how to drive stick with an Evo. The clutch is weak on this car....and if you slip or drop the clutch often....as most people who are learning do...you wear it out very quickly. It's not a quick or cheap replacement either!

I think that the Evo's is very user friendly for learning. It doesn't easily stall out....the clutch pedal is very linear and easy to figure out....the shifting mechanism is concise so it's easy to find the gears.

But you will likely wear out the clutch quickly if you don't have adequate clutching skills from the onset.

SC~