How to Drive a Manual Smoothly - 2022 Honda Civic Si (POV Binaural Audio)

Can you Drive a manual? Can you drive it without giving your passengers whiplash? Let's smooth out those shifts and get some good habits in your stick shift.

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[TedwardDrives]

Do you Drive smoothly? If you like the video share with someone who has given you some clunky rides!

[SaabStory]

I agree with the generational fact, my father doesn’t revmatch downshift and I never knew it was a thing until I got into backroad driving and realized how important it was

[tommynobaka]

Driving manual made me be more mindful and respectful of driving.

It made me pay more attention to drivers habits, my own driving inputs and how the car behaves and being more safe while observing others driving habits as well. I give people more space than needed (rolling back), and at 4 way stops, I always give others the right of way because drivers are unpredictable and people do california stops more often than not instead of stopping all the way

[chillphung]

Haha, I felt "called out" during the overshifting portion, lol. I'm always shifting unnecessarily between 2, 3, &4 on a backroad for the fun of it. There's something about banging off a couple of perfectly timed heal toe downshifts while trail braking towards an apex that makes me feel like a mini driving God, lol.

[saucyp]

+1 for the neutral jiggle. IDK why that polarizes some people, it's such good practice

[hopfaundfelder]

I was incredibly surprised on how temperature affected the shifting. In the morning or in winter my Twingo RS shifts just really uncomfortably. You really feel whats happening inside the box. But as soon as temps are over about 15-20 degrees (the right ones), it like a whole new gearbox. It really feels like putting it into butter.

[gatz-]

I think the most important lesson I was given when I was learning was that it's actually okay to not be perfectly smooth and to make mistakes, so long as you understand WHY it was a mistake. If the car is lurching but you don't understand why it isn't liking your inputs, then you should research what is mechanically happening in a manual trans. That way, next time you make a mistake, you will know what caused the car to lurch and you can correct yourself over time.

IMO there is way too much criticism/pressure for new manual drivers to feel like their shifts need to always be perfect otherwise they are a terrible driver.

Like playing a musical instrument, mastery comes after years of practice, and even then "mastery" does not equal perfection. Even the most experienced driver makes mistakes every once in a while.

[austin]

Picking up my first manual today at the dealership (this exact car). Been practicing for months now on my mom's car and this video was great man, truly appreciate it.

[matthewhammond]

Quite literally every older person I drive with is so blown away by downshifting and how smooth the downshifts feel with it. It’s weird that the people that taught me how to drive don’t know about this skill.

[alexp]

The smoothest stickshift car I ever had was a 1989 CRX Si - super easy to drive smoothly in all conditions. Modern stickshift cars with rev-hang require completely opposite shifting technique - shift quicker at lower revs/smaller throttle inputs, and shift slower with higher revs/more throttle. My 2018 Accord Sport drops the revs pretty quick when driving slowly, so if I take my time with the shift I also have to feed throttle back in to bring the revs back up to where they need to be, but if I rev it out, I have to allow 2-3 seconds for the revs to fall to where they need to be.

[thunderocker]

I've seen so many videos about driving manual, and I never get tired of it.
It hypes me up for my eventual first manual car lol. Soon

[sinuozhu]

bro you and topher are literally the best car reviewers at the moment. you both give such good commentary and fun pov driving content.

[alex-qpby]

"blame the teacher" aye man im self taught😔

[HuskySFM]

You have no idea how much these videos helped me get into driving a manual. Before I got my first car I had never had access to a manual of any kind. Everyone told me it was a mistake buying something I didn't know how to drive. But I bought it anyway. I hopped in, started it, and drove off right away (albeit a bit shakily.) I drove an hour back to my house based only on the experience I got from these videos. And today I'm shifting and rev matching like a pro. A couple people who've ridden with me actually admitted that they forgot it was a manual half way through the drive.

But for real, I don't know what it is about a manual transmission that makes any car fun to drive. Even my econo box dodge dart is a blast to drive with a stick shift.

[bhearing]

I absolutely love how my Prelude sounds when I get the downshift just right.
I bought this car 8 years ago not knowing how to drive manual and taught myself. Plus perfected watching Tedward and Topher s videos. I love you two ❤️

[carlosorozco]

Great video Tedward! These were the things that were going through my head after I bought my manual car after so many years of driving automatics! Understanding the car so I can upshift and downshift smoothly was the goal! Thanks man!

[RyanRoadReaper]

I could've used this video back in 2019 when I got my first manual car! Anyways, better late than never 🤣

[tylerlent]

I’ve been driving manual for 7 years and this still gave me some useful tips that I honestly never thought about 👍

[gearhead]

My future mother in law rode in my GLI for 15 minutes before looking over and going, "oh you drive a standard!" and got excited.

[Kampfmesser]

The fun/interesting part of all this is it’s often very specific to the car. I own three manual cars. My golf shifts nicest at 3k rpm with for around town driving. My truck has a very narrow rpm range (my 350 sbc redlines at 4500) so I have to ‘over shift’ around town. Rev matching is super easy. My 79 320, that transmission is perfection. Every shift is buttery smooth. Clutch bites up high and is pretty heavy.