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No. Torque is a nice thing to have when learning how to drive a manual, but the RX-8 doesn't have it at low RPMs. Purchase a cheap and easy American or Japanese automobile that’ll be cheap to change the clutch on or cheap enough to throw away after you burn out the clutch. I would never learn to drive a manual on a nice car that I wanted to keep long term. I used to have a ford escort that was very easy to drive and I taught many people to drive a manual with it. An old civic or something like that would be good too, but it will be harder to drive because it lacks the low torque.
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Simply put, no
Try learning on something a little less powered that wont put you into a ditch the first time you mis-judge a corner
Stick to a Yaris or Fit(Jazz) or something - much superior on fuel too
ofcourse it depends on where you are, if you're in America it doesn't matter since all of the engines are de-tuned to run on low octane fuel and by the time any power gets to the wheels it's all out of puff
If it's a Japanese import manual model and you're running it on the right octane fuel, then you'll have a rather fast vehicle on your hands with power to wipe the floor with most things
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Not at all. In general you want a car with a decent amount of torque. Further it would be very helpful the automobile in question had a fairly “flat” torque curve like in a huge 6 or even superior a V8.
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thats like the worst car to be a first manual automobile but u can always learn… and dont go to swift with that automobile at first or you’ll end up in a ditch Book Mark it-> del.icio.us | Reddit | Slashdot | Digg | Facebook | Technorati | Google | StumbleUpon | Window Live | Tailrank | Furl | Netscape | Yahoo | BlinkList