I'm gonna have to agree with the above post. It'll take you a couple weeks to get most of it down.

 

I think it's possible to learn in a parking lot in 1-2 hours. But it will take months to years of practice to get everything down like second nature.

Now would be a good time for someone to warn you about the oversteer feature of this car and best practices (e.g. don't let off the throttle during a corner, don't shift during a corner, don't mash the gas during a corner, drive slow in the rain, be careful of snow/ice, make sure you get an alignment AND new tires when you buy the car for maximum grip as a newb, etc.)...

This car is a handful for expert drivers. For a new driver, it's pretty much crazy.

Be careful. Take autox or something ASAP.

 

driving it home is do able just take it easy dont be trying to race it as a new driver. being new to s2k has enuff challenges when you wanna drive crazy

 

hope you dont kill your clutch.
do what i did before i got my first manual car
i learn on a rental car. just rent the car for the weekend and work on it all weekend
im not saying i learn over one weekend but i got the basic down i still stall but not to much
you mainly just need to know first and second once you on top of that learn up hill i think uphill would
be your biggest challenge.
good luck make sure to post some photos of the S when you get her.

Peace Ap2000

 

i learned to drive it on the street within 2 hours of when i got my s, and im talking about high reving to not stall. but i think with 1-2 hours of practice you can drive on the streets and be decent with a few stalls. but racing and shifting at WOT is a totally different world. that takes weeks to master.

 

the s was my first manual also. i had a supercharger and a heavy duty clutch so i had to learn the hard way. i just took it to the school park lot and practiced for like an hour or 2 when i brought it home. I probably burnt the clutch big time. i still dont prefect driving standard after two years... i still stall out from time to time. but the s is do-able as a first time manual car. just dont drive crazy in wet conditions... i oversteer the s going 30-40 miles an hour on a wide turn in wet conditions in less then a month, scared the sh*t out of me and after that i just took it slowly

 

We all had to learn sometime.

 

I don't plan on driving like an idiot, I want to enjoy my 4 hour drive home with the top down. I'm not trying to "perfect" driving a manual before getting home... I just wanna know if it's possible for me to get the hang of it quick enough to drive home. Then once I'm home, I'll drive her around for hours every day/night. I don't expect to be rev matching on the drive home

 

i'm sure you can get it home, shifts are pretty easy to do even for a beginner, just the first gear takeoffs from a dead stop are going to be stalls or burnouts, as long as you got it right in your head the feet coordination will eventually follow...

 

Definitely doable. But as Conan and fr0st said, it will not be second nature. You will likely stall a few times and roll back a bit more than you'd like on hills, but it is doable. If it wasn't, no one would have ever learned stick since we probably wouldn't have gotten home that first day. You'll likely be heavy handed on the gas initially, but just focus on learning the clutch pedal for now.

THE NUMBER ONE THING IMO. Before you get really comfortable driving stick, do not take those "red light right turns" with traffic coming or anything else where you are in a compromising position if you stall. You definitely do not want your nose sticking out into traffic. The number one thing is not to stress out or panic when you stall on the street; just go left hand starter and right hand shifter. If you stay frosty and focus on learning the clutch, you should be able to get it home.

Quite honestly though, I would get a friend or family member to drive your car home for you. This whole "getting a car home without standard experience" sounds like a huge hassle.