When to go from 1st to 2nd to 3rd and so...

[yaristhebest]

Hi,

I own a Yaris 2012 Sedan with 5 speed manual transmission. Mine is in kmph (not mph) because I'm from South America. This is my first car and never before drove anything except my bike

I actually have my driver's license and I'm already driving my Yaris but I still find it a little hard to get used to the manual speed. When I was on the driver's school I was instructed on both manual and automatic cars and I have to say that I was in love with automatic cars but since those are $1,000 than the manual version and eat more gas, I bought a manual. So far I have to say that I'm a little disappointed about the comfort (I live in a traffic-intense city) but since it has been only one week driving my car I still hope to get used to the manual speed

Since I know that 1kilometer=0.62miles it's ok to me if you reply with values in mph (I'll do the conversions at my end). I have heard that it's not about mph when you have to shift from 1st to 2nd and so but it's all about RPMs however since we all have Yaris I believe that we can safely speak about mphs because I guess that all our cars have similar RPMs at each speed (since all are Yaris) or at least all the Yaris 2012 should be, if I'm wrong please let me know.

Well now please tell me what are the best moments to go from:

1st -> 2nd = XX mph
2nd -> 3rd = XX mph
3rd -> 4th = XX mph
4th -> 5th = XX mph

And also the reverse:

5th -> 4th = YY mph
4th -> 3rd = YY mph
3rd -> 2nd = YY mph
2nd -> 1st = YY mph

If you have some spare time and can tell me more about the RPMs and how should I use that indicator to use my manual speed I'll really appreciate your help.

Finally the Toyota guy told that since it's a new car I should not drive it at more than XX kmh until I reach 1,000km. Issue here is that I don't remember what speed limit he told me How it was in your case? What was your mph speed limit until you reach a certain amount of milles on your new Yaris?

Thank you!