How to Drive a Stick Shift Car - How to bypass gears in a manual transmission
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Hi! This is Rob again with Expert Village. One of the reasons people buy a manual transmission
cars is it gets better gas mileage than automatics. One way to optimize better fuel mileage is
to start out in a higher gear. If you are on a hill as we are right now, you can start
the car going, start out in second gear, get moving, you want to shift right to fourth
and if you want to just go from 1st, 3rd, to 5th, that is another way to get the most
out of your mileage and save some wear and tear on your transmission. Start in 1st, you
just drive a little bit up to 3,000 RPM’s, shift to 3rd; you can barely hear the difference
between shifting right into 2nd and from 3rd, I can go right into 5th gear and you can barely
hear the difference. I would not suggest this for a beginning driver but once you get proficient
in your transmission shifting abilities, you can start shifting gears and missing gears
as you are going. The less RPM’s you have to keep the car going the better mileage you
are going to get. As you are driving and you want to bypass some gears, once you get proficient
with your transmission shifting, it is an option for you to use.
