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How do people learn to drive manuals in 2025? It used to be that you used your buddy's/parent's beater in the back of the mall parking lot.

But no one has one anymore. I tried to learn in the 90s for about an hour, and never managed to get the car moving forward rather than bouncing. At this point, I don't have much desire to try again, but I wouldn't know how to try if I wanted to.

Cheap standard cars like a miata are fun to drive

edit: if you buy em old I mean

me I want an Exige

Twenty years ago, I supervised a beginner in an office parking lot that was generally empty on Saturdays. But you're right, we haven't had a car with a manual transmission in a dozen years now.

A patina of filth, slightly faded paint and maybe a few dings and dents also help make a car invisible.

So funny the guy towing my car couldn't drive it so I had to drive it onto the ramp