1st to 2nd took some getting used to for me too, seems like because it starts out with so much torque...
That's exactly the reason I didn't buy a Ferrari California.
The Mustang has this? I've never used it, how does it work? Do it impede performance in anyway? Is it something that you turn on/off or is it always there?
WHEW!!!! i thought i was the only one!!
Don`t take everything so Personal, eh? Just because you can`t re-elect Rob Ford again as Mayor of Toronto, you can still Vote for his Brother.
Driver Assist > Hill Start Assist > On
That's an awfully low opinion to be holding of drivers that are apparently much younger than yourself. Are you sure that you aren't just filtering a few bad memories from your own stick-shift learning days through the fog of four or five decades of combined wear and tear on your limbs? Maybe I should have my 17 y/o granddaughter scold you.
Look, I get it that bad traffic is a discouragement to driving a conventional manual transmission vehicle. Hell, it's a discouragement to driving any vehicle. I know because some of my early driving was in and around Boston MA, which had a lot to do with our decision to live where I wouldn't have to cope with such a time-consuming commute. Oh yeah, that was back in the days when the cars available to me had automatic transmissions, making the transmission type irrelevant.
Please don't throw that out like it's a guaranteed obstacle to driving stick, even long term. It's not. I'll be 67 in a couple of weeks, and I've had both knees operated on, each twice, all four occurring in the 1985 - 1987 time frame (so the repairs have also had a good bit of time to age and wear). Even so, catching heavy traffic in northern NJ, through NY, and on I-95 in CT on a trip between here and SE MA does not bother those joints noticeably more than it did 40 years ago.When you get older then 50, have a bottle of Aleve ready for the pain in your left knee from depressing the clutch in a thousand times a day.
Assuming it works like it did in my 135i: if you are stopped on a backward decline with brake applied, once you let off brake pedal, the brakes will remain engaged for about 2 seconds - so you don't roll backward while transitioning to the throttle.
When i was 17 i had a manual toyota corolla that was a 5 speed. I drove to and from school in morning and afternoon rush hour traffic. In Honolulu. Which is the 2nd worst traffic in the nation to LA. I had no problem then and id do it again in a heartbeat.
I don't find myself tired on longer drives anymore now that I have a MT ;) Driving a MT is definitely more entertaining and keeps you aware of your surroundings which means safer driving.
That was a good read, but far too complicated. The first thing you should do when teaching stick is give the driver a safeword, say, banana-hammock. Whenever you say banana-hammock, the driver pushes the clutch in. I've done this a few times now and it's cut down on the stalls 80%. After that they learn gear order, and your incessant shouting of the safe-word when they're about to dump it really teaches them the clutch feel quickly.
