I never drove a stick before. All my cars have been automatics. My lease is almost up on my Explorer and I will be getting a new Mustang. How hard would it be to learn to drive a stick on a new Mustang?

 

I learned to drive stick on my mustang. I was 16 at the time and had just learned to drive as well, took about a week of practice in empty parking lots and the I was good to go.

 

Nothing better to learn on. I learned on my old 1990 Fox GT. I bought the car without ever practicing, killed it 3 times on my way off the lot.

 

I think they're pretty easy to learn on

 

IM glad i live on a farm! thats like the first thing my dad taught me.

 

My mustang is on order, and I'm also planning on learning after I buy it. I've practiced about once a year for about 30 min. sessions on friends' cars over the years, but I still stalled the mustang about 11 times on my test drive (7-8 of those times were in the parking lot, trying to park).

A year ago I was shopping for an '06 Acura RSX-S. I killed that car 3 times on the test drive. In retrospect, I'm glad I didn't get that car, because that transmission is too perfect for a beginner. Knowing 0% about driving stick, I could tell that the Mustang's tranny was alot less refined. I think if I started off with the RSX, I would have been spoiled for life and had a hard time living with anything less. (Conversely, starting on the Mustang GT, I will be spoiled power-wise and will have a hard time living with a 200hp import )

I think this will be a great car to learn stick on.

 

Learned on my 05.
Took a bit, but i knew how the stuff worked, just needed to practice it on this car.

Now I love it;

 

I learned on my 93 Ranger a few days after I bought it. I had my sister and mother with me when I bought so I just let my mother drive it home. Heh, fitting all three of us in the cab (I had two buckets instead of the bench) was treat. But I learned the old fashioned way, went to a deserted parking lot and drove around for a few hours learning first gear, then I was out on my own.

 

techinally i learned on my bike (02 Vulcan) and just kinda used the same concept for my mustang. but i NEVER drove a manual before i bought my mustang. yea i stalled for a little while at a dead start (for about the first week) but then i got the hang of it and i will never look back. BEST decision i made to go with the 5speed. the whole learning experience is definetely frustrating as hell but well worth it.

 

i was just about to bash that Acura RSX-S to pieces (i was going to buy it myself before the mustang then i found out it was going to be discontinued plus i fell in love with my car the second i saw it) but then after you said it was a 200hp import all was well with the world.

 

Took me about a week to get "good" with it.

 

very easy. If you don't know, you should read/learn about how the engine clutch and transmission work together. I think its easyer to learn how to drive it when you understand everything that is going on when you are doing it.

 

Totally agree.
Once you know what the tranny is doing and how it interacts... makes things that much easier.

 

I learned by driving tractors, quads, farm trucks....pretty much anything with a clutch. lol. Now every time I get in an automatic I find myself slamming my left foot to the floor because there is no clutch pedal.

 

Haha, I do that sometimes, too...

 

I got my ex-wife's middle boy a manual (he was almost 21 and had never owned a car) and gave him a couple of lessons and said good luck.
(The clutch was almost new and the car only has 65HP.)

 

i learned in an 07 Shelby GT the dealer just got off the trailer LOL, my friend said if i wanted to test drive it before it would go on sale so we took it out and it only stalled on me once, after that it never stalled or turned off on me again. awesome car by the way

 

Getting around is not too difficult to learn. The two hardest things in my opinion are uphill stopsigns, and learning what gear to downshift to when going from 55 to 35 around a corner with changes in elevation for example. Practice, practice, practice. You will love driving manuals trans 90% of the time (I've had my leg go numb from 2 hours in stop and go traffic in a Ranger )

 

I managed to stall my v6/stick Ranger a few times when I first got it. A few times were caused by wet pedals and shoes and my foot slipped off the clutch. Some new pedal covers and it was all good. After that, piece of cake. I love driving stick, other than sitting in traffic that isn't going anywhere. I've had my foot go numb a few times in rush hour traffic.

 

As mentioned spend some time understanding what goes on when you depress the pedal before you even get in the seat. Having an understanding of how it works will accelerate the learning curve tremendously. For practice just makes the rounds taking test drives!