Congrats Gekko... I think...

Yeah, just learned how to drive an automatic but, which was fine..since that's what noth of my folks drive...but now, one o fthe priests at my church is making me learn how to drive a manual...on the PRIEST'S CAR!!! Great, all I need in life, to crash a priest's cat.

Crash a priest's cat? God.. that'd be awful :D

Well, I found the car that I want to get in a few months:

2002 Toyota Celica - 6 speed manual :drool:

Keep wanting. The car starts at 22, and putting 22 into a car without any features is just stupid, so expect it to be more like 25, 26 when you are happy with it. Then insurance for you will probably be about $500 a month, likely higher. Then considering you're a new driver, and new drivers are generally stupid (confirmed in your case :lol:), you'll likely to get in an accident before you're out of high school.

You can want that car, but you probably ain't gonna get it :D

Next question, why a 6-spd in a Celica? It's 180hp, 4-banger, a 5-spd would do it more justice. It's not like it goes fast enough to make use of the 6 gears, so really you're only shifting more often, which just means more time off the gas when you're accelerating.

Next thought, why is a priest teaching you how to drive, Kitana?

Hmmmmmmmmm I've been driving for about 4 years I think and i can drive better than my mom ( or so I say) , well Gekko soon enough you'll be balancing the cluth and gas, then you'll move on and have your foot sideways pressing the gas and the brake at the same time ( i call it cross footing). Then you'll go to handbraking around corners.....and then you'll crash your first car as all teenagers do ( well except me of course. 4 yrs and no accidents :D...yeah for me)

Well ok maybe not crash your car but I can assure you that you will get the urge to handbrake the car atleast once....I don;t know knnow what it is but everyone of my friends who drives has hankbraked atleast once...I don't know maybe it's a guy thing.

But I hope you get your license, then after you get it, that's when you really have to learn to drive. yes and you'll also learn new cuss words.
Oh yeah I advise you to stick this on the back of your car


KEEP HORNING I'M RELOADING
or
MY HORN IS BROKEN WATCH FOR THE MIDDLE FINGER
:D

I know all that gekko, I just want that car :drool:

Cross footing? It's actually called heal-toeing, if you care. Don't see any reason to use it if you're not racing (like racing with turns, rally racing for example, not drag racing). Handbraking, 'round here we call it whipping ****ties. That's something i've actually done with a driver's instructer :) In reality, if there's a safe place and snow of the ground, it's something you should do. My sister hit a patch of ice before, and she kept spinning, did close to a 900. Now if you knew what you were doing, could've easily stopped it a few turns back. It's something worth practicing if there's no possible danger, and do it on snow so your tires don't stick to the pavement and cause a rollover, but the people doing it are doing it for the spin, so they never learn how to get out of it.

Maybe it's a guy thing, I'm sure it is. But it ain't worth it. We all have the urge to drift around corners and everything, do drag-race between stoplights, but it isn't safe, and honestly, I have no desire to do it. I've been in cars that were out of control, not going to purposely do it again. I've talked to people who were street racing and came about an inch away from nailing a parked car at 120mph. Trust me, "being a teenager" is not the way I plan to end my life. If I want to feel the rush of driving, I'll go to the track, where I'll at least live to feel it again.