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Learn on a cheap, non sports car.
Once you learn get a manual Porsche- it will be life changing
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Some smaller rental car places still have stickshift inventory, but it’s few and far between in the US. Cheap beater from Craigslist is another option. Unfortunately there’s no way to learn except by doing it, and most people, especially those who own sports cars, are unlikely to invite the extra wear on their cars that comes with learning how to drive stick.
I believe there may be a few places around the country that are basically driving schools for manual transmissions (a cursory google reveals a few around NYC).
Second the driving school option. When I was initially taking my drivers Ed course, my parents asked the course admins if I could learn to drive on a stick and they had a car for that exact purpose
If this is the case I would find a Craigslist beater for a few hundred and learn from YouTube. What you really need is just practice and learning the feel of the clutch and rhythm of shifting by actually doing it. If you can’t sell the car later you can always junk it for scrap and get a couple hundred to recoup some losses.
Rental car is the way to go 100%, that’s how I learned. As others mentioned, it’s harder to find US rental car companies that will have manuals still. If you ever travel outside of the US, rental car companies have tons of manual options. I learned manual while I was in college and was studying abroad, spent roughly 10 days in Italy driving some pos manual rental car
Unless you are actually retarded you don’t need to find a beater car to learn on. It’s really quite easy, it just gets hyped up as this difficult thing to do. Maybe don’t get something with over 300hp for the first car, as “riding the clutch” is much worse the more hp the engine puts out, but there’s nothing dangerous about this if you are a fully functioning adult with common sense.
You can maybe try renting some manuals off Turo
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I bought a '99 Corolla for $1200 for my girlfriend to learn on. Glad I did, she would redline the car and slip the clutch out veeerrrry slowly.
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I can see the ad now when you sell it: “99 Corolla low miles for the year only driven on Sundays to church. Very reliable, plenty of life left. $1500.”