Hi Pat; if your niece has been driving for a little while already, but on
an automatic, I think it is going to be very difficult to teach her how to
drive a manual gearbox correctly. We were in the fortunate position of
owning 45 acres and when my son was 14 I bought an old wreck of a 4WD with a
standard transmission, so he could go off in the woods and through the field
whilst learning how to drive a manual gearbox. He's 21 now and drives a 1982
Volvo 242 (60,000kms from new) with a 4-speed. For nearly a year he has
been trying to teach his girlfriend how to drive the car, but she just can't
get it. Maybe it's just her, but I have always felt that the only way to
learn how to drive a car with a manual gearbox is to not drive an automatic
first.
Definitely, if you want to go through with this they you will need to
borrow or rent manual gearbox car but it will be a long and arduous process.
Tim
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