Brand new to Manual Driving, should I buy this coupe as a newb
I always wanted to drive and have a manual transmission. Looks like alot of fun and I enjoy driving anyway. I'm going to take a class on manual driving and wanted to ask you guys a couple questions
1. is it normal to buy say a new G coupe manual when you have just learned how to drive manual.
2. What are some of the nuances that come with the newer G35 and new G37 manual transmission.
3. Any videos I can watch online that will give me a headstart before I go take my lesson.
I'm planning on if everything goes well have the class on Monday, test drive g37 on Wednesday, and buy it if I like it. I don't want to waste time test driving the automatic then buying the manual as they can be different feels.
well; if you don't know how to drive manual transmission yet, why are you trying to test drive a MT car? what if you stall it 99 times before get onto the freeway? lol from my experience, my sister has a 2005 G35 coupe w/ automatic tranny and i have a 2004 G35 coupe w/ manual tranny. to be honest with you, there is not much of difference in the performance wise. i mean if you are not in racing mod, just want to check how much the car has power and stuff, it's very similar.
well watching a video of someone driving MT is like watching someone learning to ride a bicycle...looks easy and no brainer right? but its not so when its your turn
basically you need to have a good coordination between your left and right foot and be able to think faster than the car, and with car like g35 thats pretty fast
go practice on a car with little power and ride it for about a month in traffic jams and than you might be ready to buy a sport car with MT . But keep in mind that driving a MT is an art its own way and many people just drive the car without using the MT to its fullest potential
good luck
new g clutch is some of the stiffest clutches i know for stock. definitely NOT what you want for learning a manual. borrow someone's civic and learn first. even then it wouldnt be easy.
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well; if you don't know how to drive manual transmission yet, why are you trying to test drive a MT car? what if you stall it 99 times before get onto the freeway? lol from my experience, my sister has a 2005 G35 coupe w/ automatic tranny and i have a 2004 G35 coupe w/ manual tranny. to be honest with you, there is not much of difference in the performance wise. i mean if you are not in racing mod, just want to check how much the car has power and stuff, it's very similar.
I'm taking a hands on lesson before test driving the car. Thats what my whole post was about. If I learn how to drive stick on say a Civic, how hard is it to transfer that experience to the G coupe. I figure as long as if I have the basics down in the lesson, I should be good to go.
not easy. the tranny on the G is not the best of the bunch, it has its tempers and kinks. getting the car to drive as it should be takes some real time even for usual manual drivers. If you care for your brand new car, you wouldn't drive it until you are sure you know what's up
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I always wanted to drive and have a manual transmission. Looks like alot of fun and I enjoy driving anyway. I'm going to take a class on manual driving and wanted to ask you guys a couple questions
1. is it normal to buy say a new G coupe manual when you have just learned how to drive manual.
2. What are some of the nuances that come with the newer G35 and new G37 manual transmission.
3. Any videos I can watch online that will give me a headstart before I go take my lesson.
I'm planning on if everything goes well have the class on Monday, test drive g37 on Wednesday, and buy it if I like it. I don't want to waste time test driving the automatic then buying the manual as they can be different feels.
1) Normal???...what is that anyway?
2) If you are just learning to drive with a clutch, you definitely won't be concerned with nuances yet!
3) +1 to what somebaody else here said before about that. It is an experiential thing, you just gotta do it yourself. It's not a video game.
Someone else had a very good point about the manual and the automatic being very similar in many ways. Therefore, JUST FOR THE PURPOSE OF TESTDRIVING THE CAR to see if you even like it, you might consider testdriving an automatic (w/SPORT) to evaluate the car without the distraction of shifting. Then, theoretically, you could buy a manual and polish your skills at your leisure. Might be kinda hard to properly put the car through it's paces in a testdive if you are stalling and constantly distracted from the ride.
Lastly, if you do learn to drive a cluth on a Civic, you can most certainly make the 'leap' to the G. Spend an afternoon in a large deserted parking lot and you'll have it down. No big deal...it's just a clutch! Heck, you don't even have to double clutch on these new things! You can do it.
Yes. If you learn how to drive a stick on a civic, and you have the basic idea then Yes, you can safely drive G35 home once you buy it.
It will take time to get the G to shift smoothly beacuse the clutch/transmission on our car are a POS...
But once you know how to drive a stick, you can bascally drive any stick with no problem... It may not be a smooth transition, but once you drive it and see where the clutch engages, then everything else will follow..
If you can't drive a stick, then just get a friend to drive the G home and you can practice late at night..
going from driving a civic a few years to a g35.. i still stalled a few times in the beginning.. so even if your an experienced manual driver.. it still takes time getting used to it. but i still advise you to learn manual on a bucket car first to get the basics as a few others have mentioned.
I don't know if G's are the same as Z's.. but the clutch on that Z i drove was fucking weird.. very stiff/heavy. It threw me off because I dive our beater corolla and the clutch on that is light.. It was a biotch to get it out of first but I got the hang of it after 10 minutes.
i don't know how much it will take for you to get used to G 6mt but for me, it took me about a week and it was my first car =D i've never drove 6mt before. first day, i stalled like 7 times before getting out of the parking lot. next day, stalled almost everytime at the stop sign, next day, stalled few times and starting from 4th day, stalling got less and after a week, i was able to go up on a hill. and now, it's been like 4 months and i am mastered!
i agree. learn 1st before driving a 6mt G. i've been driving stick for 12 yrs and drove many standard cars. my first stick car was a civic. i think it is the easiet car to learn. the clutch is effortless. the G is not the easiest to drive, but none the less. good luck. hope you learn well
before i got my G i practiced in my friends civic for like 15 minutes... that was the only time i ever drove a manual.. stalled twice doing so...
then i got my G... boy was it completely different.. it's a lot harder to get smooth shifts...
honestly, if u have some sense on how a manual transmission works, then u will be fine.. can't stress this enough, practice! =).. but yea man.. don't sweat it.. just be careful and don't panic... good luck bro..
i believe videos do help you in a way... here is a good video on youtube.. i learned how to downshift rev match watching this vid.. of course it takes practice, but it's better than nothing..
a while ago this young girl asked me if she could drive my car. I said but can you drive stick well. She said "Im pretty good". I said yeah probably not.
Come to find out later she was going to jail for hitting a pedestrian and lying about it. Sweet deal. MT just take practice and time to master. Then you start to flow naturally after a while. Make sure you practice on hills before stopping on a steep one.
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Brand new to Manual Driving, should I buy this coupe as a newb
