How to Drive a Manual Transmission: The Basics Explained and Demonstrated

[@PapishHawk]

"get more young kids involved in classic cars" all while the minimum age to get insurance through hagarty is 25 yrs old...

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[@mikeroberts6676]

The goal of 2nd gear is to get the front wheels off the ground. Just saying

[@ToxicVenom324]

Mike Roberts even if it's a fwd car

[@ToxicVenom324]

Xploding-turtle will do 👍🏼

[@Nebulasecura]

Currently approaching 20 years old and I’m feeling ready to start learning how to drive a manual so that I can one day get into the classic car market, I know there’s automatics but that’s generally not an option on the classic Volkswagens

[@annoythedonkey]

I don't know about you but my parents did right and taught me on a stick. They parked on a hill and told me to figure it out and drive. I got it pretty quick

[@nestr2007]

learned manual at 12 years old in a 82 Datsun truck. you never forget how to drive manual.

[@big_oolian]

Me to but with a 91 miata

[@Tune2dis41]

You really don’t I was 16 at the time when I learned am 38 I still remember how to drive a stick shift! muscle memory is great!!

[@Pippi-Longstocking]

My husband has a 1969 Hugger Orange SS Camaro. I'm picking up my family's 1970 AMC Mark Donahue SST Javelin today...and it's been since 1995 since I drove a manual transmission. I'm brushing up...although I remember that no matter if you already know how to drive a manual or already drive a manual, every manual transmission is different and you have to get familiar with it. I don't advocate every "riding the clutch" but if you are learning the first time, feel the catch between releasing the clutch and the adding the gas before fulling releasing the clutch.

[@jamescanfield7251]

Manual transmission? Or millennial anti theft device?

[@HuevoDuro702]

james canfield I'm a millenial my Hatchback is a stick shift

[@wieg007]

it's so easy to drive a manual!

[@MrCarguy2]

And fun!

[@unknowntonoone1368]

same joke

[@cheyennedogsoldiers]

Not here in the UK. Everybody learns on a stick, its a legal requirement in-order to obtain an unrestricted licence. The only exception is if you have a disability which prevents you from driving a manual.

[@arikeer]

I always wanted to drive manual but too chicken to. Lol. But if they have free classes on it near me on the East, I'd totally hop on it. I want my next car to be a stick shift. :]

[@lawtowngirl85]

arikeer don't be it fun

[@mathewbsaenz]

Honestly, create a turo account. Find a fiat 500 abarth in your area with stick. Press the clutch in to turn it on. Keep the clutch pressed down and shift into first. Slowly let your foot off the pedal until the car creeps on it's own. Give it a tiny amount of gas while releasing the clutch fully and away you go. Shifting into second is the same. Clutch all the way in, move the shifter to 2 clutch back out then gas like normal :D if you want it explained easier than even this video, search vehicle virgins how to drive manual. He explains the bite point a lot more clearly! He was how I got the basic concept. Then from there I spent a day (a few hours) practicing in my friends civic. Then almost a year later we bought my nephew a manual Abarth. I drove it home from the dealer and taught him that night. He had it within a week! I'm telling you, once you watch the vehicle virgins video, you'll never forget! And the abarth has the easiest, most forgiving clutch to learn with. It's so light and the moment the clutch is engaged is so clear, you'll get it instantly! :D hope that helps you learn. Don't be afraid! Try new things! :D

[@Tune2dis41]

I’ve hoped you’ve gotten that stick shift!!

[@arikeer]

@@Tune2dis41 Thank you for asking but sadly No! I was suppose to get one at the end of 2019... but we were on lock down and it was delayed. I got something better. This vehicle has automatic AND manual setting. stick shift paddles on the wheels. Love it so much!

[@everythingerina9379]

just go to europe

[@jcgitmo9217]

All these old people making fun of us Millennials when they can't even use their own phone 😂😂

[@williamdart6650]

Okay, now that's funny!

[@mistamaog]

OLB 3535 And if you're a millennial that can do both?

[@XplodingTurtle]

OLB 3535 but the manual transmission is older than your smartphone

[@tjf7101]

Old people designed your beloved phone.

[@number1heatrocka287]

Wow awesome event! Thanks for covering this TFL!

[@dan4932001]

LMAO TOMMY KNOWS STICK!! just wanted to drive old camaro

[@mgpmisterk2322]

i dont blame him

[@rich00273119]

I love the smell of burnt clutch in thr morning

[@eric4133]

I have rarely ever driving a manual in my life, but it made more sense for me in Japan being on the right side of the vehicle shifting left handed then how it is the US. Probably just because I am left handed, but it felt more normal. Honestly though I'm happy with an auto.

[@rcomascat]

I've never driven an automatic. this thing is not so common here in Russia. For those who struggle to start a car on the stick I have a little advice how to do it without stalling - don't afraid to get too much throttle, rev your engine to 3 or 4 thousand rpm and then release the clutch. If the car is not extremely powerful it's stated smoothly. Once I was drunk and my friend never driven stick before I asked her to ride me home in my car but it was awful she stalled, stalled and stalled. She got mad, cried and hated me. Than the idea came to me - I told her what I've told you up here and things became better! She drove like an expert didn't stall at all. But people out there though that she is a street rider - she rev up the engine at every lights and took off quickly - they even tryed to race us!

[@goatmonkey2112]

I'm just here to read all of the chest thumping comments.

[@MultiPurposeReviewer]

Ha ha! That is so sadly true!

[@waclosh]

such a fun video. Great to see the offspring making his way. Good luck and keep at it. You are great. Oh and props to Hagerty

[@pbfloyd13]

who's idea was it to bring a RHD car to manual instructional event?!?!

[@pbfloyd13]

Thats like teaching someone to paint with their non dominant hand.

[@XplodingTurtle]

pbfloyd13 so? Its still cool

[@jefflilyea4669]

My first Camaro was a '67 6cyl with a 3sp. column shift. (My first wife learned on my 67 firebird 327 4spd.)

[@aitorror3659]

I think this is like just US thing... pretty much everywhere else most people drive stick :D It isn't hard, I've learned how to drive stick in about 30 sec with an old tractor :P (15 sec of this time was firing it up after I've stalled it from trying to start in fifth)

[@cpufreak101]

Ai Torror indeed a US only thing, from what I've been hearing people are surprised to hear you're not required to learn to drive stick here, then again I think only about 3% of cars on our roads are manual

[@janneheikkinen8810]

a tractor you serious in a tractor you just drop the clutch in first gear😂

[@x7stringinJSCx]

i learned how to drive stick 15 years ago on a friend's truck.. took it around town for a full day. It was interesting. I got used to it but i'm just not a big fan of 2 leg driving.

[@Flydevice1]

My first car was a e46 BMW 5 speed. Had to teach my self stick if I wanted to go to school. I miss that car.

[@PM-mz8ub]

OMG I can't drive a manual, I really need to learn badly you kids are very lucky.

[@PM-mz8ub]

Justin Noker But we must keep learning, moving forward, I have been thinking about going to truck driving school/one day buying a cheap used or new car. These driving schools here,Jackson, MS don't have sticks and some people just don't want to see you know something they know,like my brother and his friends, he's helped several learn to drive stick yeah I know.

[@cpufreak101]

P M that is cool, but yeah even I can say expect to see an automatic truck, as they really are now starting to put automatics into class 8 trucks. And I suppose true, wouldn't know why though.

[@NikoBellaKhouf]

It's really easy. You can learn from KZbin

[@hurleykid83]

ive always had beginners only pull out the clutch first with out any throttle. just so they can feel the grabing point a few times, then as they know where the clutch grabs, then apply some throttle. most cars have enough torque that it wont stall, if you release the clutch pedal slow enough.

[@Quintinohthree]

hurleykid83 having driven cars with tiny engines for their weight and tall gears, I can confirm this. First lesson should be to get the car rolling without throttle. Second lesson should be to quickly accelerate from a standstill.

[@PianoandCarcrack94]

Cool thing! In Europe something like that would be kind of redundant haha

[@Garcheezy]

you should say, in every country outside the US. In all southamerica, europe, most of asia and oceania, most people know how to drive manual.

[@prideventues]

I love Haggerty, keeping knowledge or the "stick" alive.

[@vwdiver512]

Such a cool experience! Best tip I can give: Buy a manual transmission car and drive it every day.

[@hassana22]

15 years driving never driven automatic

[@lfsracer79]

good for you

[@hassana22]

do you know how to drive

[@lfsracer79]

I've driven plenty of manuals and automatics. I have both now.

[@hassana22]

I believe you

[@Garcheezy]

8 years driving here, i drived my first automatic 2 years ago, and i buyed my first auto 2 month ago.

[@StrokedGT]

too bad the locations are kinda sparse and only like 5 events. I'm showing my gf's son how to drive stick in my Camaro but he'd probably love to try it in a classic.

[@3lademast3r]

In the UK and Europe we do it an easier way. Just add a small bit of throttle and hold the rpms, then let the clutch out to the biting point and hold it there, the car will drive, after the car picks up speed,.let go clutch fully

[@007cheburashka]

Amazing car. You're a lucky dude Tommy

[@XLC-zd8dn]

Sad state of North American drivers. I actually have a small reduction in my insurance because I have a standard transmission. The reason; my Jeep is less likely to get stolen because it has a manual transmission. So I guess it's a win for me, but seriously....! Second to that is lights vs traffic circles. After having driven in Europe and the UK,, 90% of the traffic lights in Canada are a waste of energy, infrastructure, and maintenance cost an need to be replaced by roundabouts (traffic circles). They are safer and, depending on which study, 20 to 25% more efficient. Save gas and time, what is wrong with that? Well many in Canada and the US don't understand them so they are afraid of them. Seriously, our driver training is so bad that kids are afraid of two things that most of the world takes for granted, traffic circles and manual transmissions.

[@eggbirdtherooster]

Tip: with a manual, always wait in neutral when you're at a stoplight or something ;)

[@Quintinohthree]

Depends. I usually keep it in first and on the clutch. Only shift to neutral when there are a couple cars in front and I know it's gonna take a while.

[@dawn2323]

im 14 and i drive both kinds of trans. A tip: By slowly releasing the clutch, the car moves (except uphill). Applying both gas and accelerator isn't necessary unless otherwise needed. Do this to have smoother runs

[@cpufreak101]

Dawn by any chance you European then?

[@dawn2323]

i know this is kinda wierd but im asian

[@cpufreak101]

Dawn mind I ask which country? I know in South-Eastern Asia and parts of china that'd be normal

[@dawn2323]

i dont mind. Im from the Philippines though. I know, it's kinda wierd

[@cpufreak101]

Dawn ah, I knew someone from there, I definitely know manuals are more common there then, say, Japan, or heck even the US (I think only about 3% of all registered vehicles are manual) still though, cool you learned pretty young, I'm 17, and so far probably doomed to driving auto the rest of my life, due to A: nobody letting me practice and B: simply almost no stick shift car's available on the (used) market really

[@ZtheWusky]

Ive driven a manual tractor from the 1930s a few times but i dunno if its the same thing. It was a 4 speed

[@SirGuidemere91]

Is downshifting on coming to a stop necessary?

[@brianjensen2806]

Can you guys do diesel truck manual transmission review

[@mcfero1]

Hey car channel, the color is called hugger orange not bright orange.

[@daixso]

I'm a millennial and I love my manual

[@shadvan9494]

I learned to drive back in the late 80s in a 76 Camaro with a stick shift. since then all of my cars with exception my wife current 2015 Cherokee Trailhawk have been a stick. I don't have a problem with automatics, I just prefer a stick. I don't think its a age thing as lot of the millennials I know can drive a stick. it just that most people in the us choose a an automatic for convenience. the new automatics are really nice, the 10 speed in the new ford truck is awesome the 9 speed in my wife's Cherokee is not bad either. however I still prefer a manual. My 2015 Wrangler Hard Rock is 6 speed and my 197 Camaro SS 396 is a 4 speed. I think its cool that Hagerty is teaching kids about classic cars and manual transmissions. the day I can get a manual is the day I quit buying new cars.

[@nittanyburg20]

I want a manual car, but I also live in an area with a lot of hills and heavy traffic, so...

[@sleeth11]

If you dive in and force yourself to learn it, you’ll thank yourself later because you’ll be a pro at arguably the hardest part of professional driving. I see its been 3 years.. hopefully you’re driving one now!

[@MrSlicer2424]

More Charlotte, That would be better!!

[@MRTOWELRACK]

I wonder what electric is like. I've never driven an EV but regenerative braking and instant torque intrigue me.

[@cpufreak101]

MRTOWELRACK ask a Tesla owner, they'd know.

[@MRTOWELRACK]

Justin Noker Oh, I've seen. I'm more curious to drive. No dice so far.

[@cpufreak101]

MRTOWELRACK that is indeed understandable, never drive an EV but from what people tell me, it's like nothing you've driven before

[@HoofHearted2DAY]

When I was juvie back in 2000 I taught my mate how to drive my dad's piece of shit Hyundai Excel in a grassy paddock (like many rural Aussies) but the c*nt kept stalling it, so I said to him "imagine withdrawing out of a chick - pull out slow, don't just rip it out"... nek minnit he didn't stall & picked it up ASAP. True story bro.

[@Shahabbi]

what is the minimum age that you have to be to go to this program.

[@TFLcar]

+Shahab Besharatlou 15-years-old

[@lennyk75]

only in USA :)

[@MeDicen_Rocha]

I would assume its easier to learn to drive a manual in a Camaro or a Challenger because of all the Torque of those V8's.

[@timg.1599]

Greetings from Germany

[@robertmonhollen4091]

I wish my Jeep Renegade Trailhawk had a 6 speed manual :/ but it's a 9 spd auto

[@staticbeans]

cool video

[@rebelguy9487]

What a great setting to learn stick shift!

[@smokeybear45]

I was here before 100 thousand viewers

[@vpower87]

Ahahah here in italy to pass the exam and take the license you have to drive manual. so nothing new

[@Casiernick]

Everywhere in Europe is it like that. Some countries, like Belgium, you can do it with an automatic, but then you wil get a special code on youre licence and you are only allowed to drive an automatic.

[@bigfatengineer]

This is the one of the most unfortunate things about living in North America. Cars with automatic transmission out sell manual transmissions significantly. So, the cars available with manual are becoming much more rare. You can only find them in *some* sporty cars or entry level models.

[@Casiernick]

Unfortunately, this is also happening in Europe... :'(

[@L0WlifeS10]

exact same deal in sweden

[@Garcheezy]

not only in europe, in all southamerica is like that. At least here in argentina, they give you a license for driving only automatic cars. If you pass the exam, you can get the license for both transmitions. But... at least here, 80% of the cars are manual.

[@Garebare1]

Ok but these cars don't have synchros so you would have to double clutch to shift in these cars aka clutch in then neutral clutch out clutch in second gear clutch out

[@bernardhossmoto]

I currently own my first car with automatic transmission, I am 48.

[@mathewbsaenz]

Unless you wanna be stuck with a late ninties/early 00's vette (some people don't want this) get a fiat 500 Abarth. Absolute easiest thing to learn in no joke! I'm sure a Honda is easy, but this is like... whorey 80's prom date easy. And once you've learned, you've got a fun, chuckable, relatively fuel efficient, city run about. P.S. if anyone says "I've got an old ford ranger with a stick. I'll show ya." Just walk away. Walk away as fast as you can...

[@superboy305]

Something else schools can teach kids.

[@cpufreak101]

Chris G maybe if drivers ed classes were still a thing

[@superboy305]

Let's really make schools great again.

[@cpufreak101]

Chris G how if they're cash strapped?

[@superboy305]

Oh right, money.

[@cpufreak101]

Chris G exactly :P heck my school had to do a budget vote just to simply bring the building back into compliance after deteriorating so far, much less try to get a drivers ed class reintroduced

[@hometowndiy9109]

All three of my kids will Atleast learn stick if they want to get their license. If they choose not to own/drive one that’s their choice. I think it should be a requirement to get your license, just in case(able body people obviously) I bet that alone would keep more sticks in vehicles as it seems a lot more people would drive them given the chance too.

[@waydigga1982]

Man i miss driving a stick.

[@dan4932001]

wayde philpot buy one, junky ones r cheap

[@nickstawczyk4749]

Tommy know how to drive stick tho.

[@DenverDashCam]

Stawzcar101 They allowed those with experience to participate. Anyone 15-25 was eligible.

[@chrisdrummond8893]

I just get so aggravated with British cars with passenger position steering wheels.

[@Pc118Gamer]

and jdm's

[@ethan12313]

I'm 19. and love driving manuals. unfortunately they aren't all that common anymore in Ontario. automatics are boring.

[@211ferny]

driving manual runs in the family

[@HuevoDuro702]

Fernando Pacheco mine kind of only the men on my family know how to drive manual transmission

[@JM76Miller]

Think I heard that about 18% of USA can operate an manual. How about double clutch? :)

[@mcinkyt]

.... Young people don't know this?

[@cpufreak101]

mcinkyt it's a very common thing, only 3% of our cars are stick shift now anyways so it's quite redundant, and I believe by 2022 car's will be required to have some level of autonomy to them, so that would be the official death of the manual transmission, and the next generation will probably not even know how to drive, as self driving cars take over :P

[@lawtowngirl85]

mcinkyt yea we do or I know this

[@mcinkyt]

I salute you. When I was 11 years old I was driving a ''3 ton truck'' with a 4 speed split shift transmission catching grain on the fly from the combine

[@drztopgun]

yeup I think stick is a pretty good thief deterrent someone who doesn't know how to drive stick won't touch the vehicle

[@mlindsey2956]

Always learn manual.

[@jackbrister9186]

Lol I woulda heard 2000-2500 rpm and head out

[@momo-bl9ig]

最高ですね。大自然と車と道路の繋ぎ目の無さが羨ましいです。 好きな集まりにシャツで歓迎も羨ましいです。

[@pcce1557]

Manual transmissions all day everyday. It's life.

[@BTC909]

Skip to 6:00

[@drztopgun]

if it can't be driven it can't be stolen lol.

[@cmauchi29]

Nowadays manual cars are practically extinct.

[@Pc118Gamer]

only 3 percent of cars sold last year were manuals which is sad

[@Dvasqz]

We get it Europeans. You drive manuals and 1 liter engine cars.

[@joshuavelez2584]

tengo ganar de ir a europa por eso y por el camaro 69

[@zacmodesto4941]

clutch kick ?? 😂😂😂

[@xpertdre]

*laughs in european*

[@kroky80]

what's next ? how to make babies?

[@MM7782]

Wow... Manually impaired. That's like a new breed?

[@6gredlite907]

These days automactic are as good or even better than manuals. Manuals are dying and soon enough they be no more. Only thing I see it as is bragging rights but how can you brag if newer cars take off on you at the start.

[@EDHBlvd]

Kids today. Smh.

[@Dvasqz]

We get it Europeans. You drive manuals and 1 liter engine cars.

[@Dvasqz]

We get it Europeans. You drive manuals and 1 liter engine cars.

[@DanSlotea]

Dennis Vasquez well, 2 liters 200 hp, not 7 liters 150hp.

[@chrisxaf1237]

@@DanSlotea The 7liter has 4 times the torque also a 70s 2 liter barely made 80 hp.So

[@DanSlotea]

@@chrisxaf1237 yeah, you need a lot of torque. Because you go plowing the fields in your car. Or pull tankers.

[@punkhoe]

Where even is this at, I want to drive one a classic

[@egg0534]

As an European, i hate that we have 2 liter engines, i just want some American V8. Love the sound