also, with the s2k, you gotta push the knob down to shift to reverse. when i was test driving mine from a coworker he neglected to tell me this, so i was sitting there in the car trying to get out of the parking space for a few minutes. then a week later i had to get gas. couldn't figure out how to open the gas panel, had to call him up about where the lever was. then came the secret compartment...

 

lol that order sounds about right. i couldn't find the owner's manual because i didn't know about the secret compartment. i couldn't find the fuel door release because i didn't have the owner's manual.

 

^ahahaha, that's brilliant.

Nobody in my family drives stick other than my dad and I don't plan on bringing him along. Besides, I have a fear of being a passenger in a vehicle, I need to be in control.

I never thought about those right hand, red light turns during traffic. I'll definitely try to keep those to a minimum. Stalling with a car coming at 60-80kmph doesn't sound like fun.

 

sigh our s2k's are becoming soo common now..

 

I don't think 20-30 minutes is enough to learn a manual well enough to drive 4 hours back home, unless you have the gist of it already and just need to brush up on it.

I learned to drive manual in my S2000 as well. I forced myself to practice 2 hours each day after work and it took me a good 2-3 weeks to really get it down where I'm able to drive well in traffic and uphill. Here's some pointers that I wished someone told be when I was learning.


1. Easiest way to learn the clutch engagement point is the no gas method. Clutch in, shift to 1st, slowly let the clutch out until it "bites" then SLOWLY let it out all the way until your moving.

2. The clutch engages at about 80% from the bottom or 20% from the top. It's a very small range so its a bit more difficult than normal cars.

3. Don't let the RPM's drop below 2000 or else it'll bog the engine since their isn't enough torque as low RPM's.

 

I had no experience. I watched a couple videos, bought the car at the dealer, practiced in the parking lot for 30 minutes, and then drove it home. It is possible, I've done it.

 

It's gonna happen one day, and it's getting there.

 

Be sure to let us know how it went for you Ryan.

 

I drove home about 100 miles when I picked up the car, and there was a bit of slow down freeway traffic. I drove around before leaving the vicinity of the dealer for about 1 hour. Though I was familiar with the areas I was driving. Went to some empty parking lots.

One thing to note, is that it's easy to restart the car from a stall, probably the easiest of any, because you hit the clutch and brake pedal, then check the gear is in 1st with the right hand and hit start with the left hand at the same time. On almost all other cars you have to move the key or start button with the right hand. I had to do it a number of times, recently on a slight hill at a green light with one car behind me, but luckily not during the first drive home.

I just found these videos "interesting" because they are using a Ferrari convertible to demonstrate, and the woman is promoting her car company on these videos.

http://www.monkeysee.com/play/6265-h...t-car#segments

 

So you bought your s2000 new or what?