Should I teach stick-shift with my new yaris?

[Zaphod]

Originally Posted by Loren

The Yaris clutch is certainly "weird". It does BEGIN to engage pretty close to the floor, but really doesn't fully engage right away. Find somebody who has a super-high capacity high-performance clutch, then you'll know what a binary clutch REALLY feels like!

Nothing shifts as easy as my old Pinto did. I miss that car.

The Pinto was the first car I learned to drive, and it happened to be both manual transmission and steering. Still that was an incredibly easy car to learn with and it lasted 15 years. It would have lasted longer if not for the rust.

I actually have driven a mustang with a 500lb clutch before. It wasn't really a mustang anymore, and it wasn't street legal. I didn't drive that thing for longer than 20 minutes though, it scared the heck out of me and I was petrified of being pulled over.