Wife drove my car back home, around 20 miles, when I was drunk at 2am, btw, she never drove stick before and obviously never after....
she always complain about the noise or bouncing... but, kids love it.

Not sure what is done to his MINI S but don't be fooled by some of them. I have a 2006 MINI S that held its ground fairly well next to a slightly modded speed 6 on a 50 MPH roll in race (now the speed 6 is BT and the MINI doesn't have a chance). Of course the my mini is fully bolted and tuned, it's pretty quick and handles like a go cart.

Back on subject, me and my wife are just about the only ones who drive our speed. Of course it started out as the car I picked out for my wife and I have slowly unconsciously taken over with mods.

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*bought my ms6*

friend: you bought a 5 year old manual for 18k? lol i haz automatic.

3 months later on a short road trip. two cars

me:so where are you guys? we are here at the campsite.
auto fag: uh...wait there for 30 mins will ya?

we drove out from the same house, i started 5 mins after him

FYHN

Anymore I just get aggravated when I let people drive my car. When I got it my dad drove it frequently. It's been a couple years but he came to visit and I just didn't feel like letting him drive it... Only person up this way who has driven it is a close bud with a fully built boosted d16 civic. He can drive and appreciates cars in general so it was no big deal but the whole time I'm in the passenger seat thinking "why didn't you flat foot shift? Why are you shifting so late? Why are you revving the piss out of it to get it to move when I can almost let the clutch out with hardly no throttle at all..." its fucking aggravating. Lol.

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Mom and brother drove it. Mom scared to boost and my brother has a vw rabbit with minor mods. And he wants a ms3 now.. Dad won't cause it's an import ha

My dad drives it once in a while and I seriously hate when he drives it. He rides the shit out of the clutch. He will put my car into first gear at 3000 rpm. It drives me insane and I always yell at him and he denies he is doing it. He also swears that he is not causing any damage at all to my clutch.

He is no longer allowed to drive my car lol.

A few times I tried to teach my girlfriend how to drive it just in case something happened and she needed to drive it. I might buy her a pos honda for 1000 and let her fuck up that tranny.. FYHN

Gen 1.5

My dad didn't like that the car was small and described it as uncomfortable, however he loved playing with other cars on the road. He really liked the seats

My mom drove it once. She has driven stick all her life and managed to stall it a few times.

I let a family friend(my dad's age) drive it at an empty parking lot and he burned by tires :( after which he decided to "compensate" me by burning the tires on his BMW by drifting on the parking lot. I told him that my MS3 is faster than his 996 C2 and he was laughing at me, however he never took the Porsche out of the garage while I had the car.

Gen 2

My dad likes the car much better than Gen 1 because it is bigger and looks modern. He likes it so much that he says that he wants to buy one of those.

My mom has not driven the car yet. I told her that she can do it whenever she wants, but I have the feeling that she does not want to. She is also scared to ride with me in the car as she says that it is very fast.

Rental car baby.. Thats what I'm doing. Getting a Manual Rental car and teaching the GF on that.

The *FEW* times I let my dad drive my cars he fucked up the tranny. He's an old-hat truck driver so he tries shifting without the clutch... Well, You can just tell what happens here.

From now on hes not allowed to drive my cars. Infact no one is.

The day after I bought it I didn't get to drive it. It was my dad's birthday, so I figured I'd let him have some fun. Other than that, a friend of mine drove it. He has a 50's Ford Falcon and has driven manual all of his life. He did fairly well with it.

Let one of my co workers drive mine when I first got it. He has a Miata modded and was really impressed. Since then I have modded the Speed quite-a-bit as you can see. I let him drive it again the other day and all he could say was it was night and day and was now bad-ass with a big grinn, said badass quite afew times with a big smile.

Second this. I taught my wife to drive stick on a rental in Europe. They're all manual there. We had a Renault Twingo, gayest car ever. She did really well, tho. We lived in this house at the foot of a mountain where the road went straight up, but you had to pause at a cross street with a blind intersection (damn walls you can't see around!) and then inch forward to cross that street, still going uphill, and finally turn into our house right where the road got steepest. She learned stick on that beast of a road.

She now claims that she's forgotten how, which suits me fine. She never touches my MS3.

I let my mom drive it once when she came to visit. She taught me how to drive on her manual when I was 15 (Volvo DL station wagon), so I figured turnabout was only fair. Plus, she's an old lady now and drives a Sentra, so I felt bad for her.

I have let 2 people other than me drive my MS3.
My best friend who I have known 20 years and was never once worried about - plus he let me drive his Audi A3 so I figured it was a fair trade lol.
Second was this girl I've been dating. She can drive stick but had trouble revving the motor too much while her foot was on the clutch. She drove it once and that was the end of that!

No one besides me drives my car. I get pissed off as it is watching mazda mechanics bring my car in to their garage

My wife can drive my car (she drives like a granny) and be fine but she cannot ride in it as a passenger, says it makes her motion sick. Probably just my driving style, LOL.

My son 11 and my daughter 13 both love to ride in it and both are fighting over who's it will be one day. I am training my daughter on how to drive a stick with an old ranger PU out on our farm so she will be fine. My son is still a little too short and young but is begging to learn. Best way to teach kids how to drive a stick is to teach them how to ride a motorcycle with manual clutch then they understand the concept when changing gears in a manual car.

trust my dad to drive my car, no problem there can drive it with no troubles and knows about the car

taught my brother how to drive stick when it was stock not that much of problems, now he cant drive it cause of the mounts.

mom cant drive a manual car and she doesnt wanna learn cause of my car

let my friend drive it cause he has a manual so i though eh it would be no big deal. big mistake, he rode the clutch so fucking much and was just driving around at like 3.5-4k so hes not driving it anymore.

my grandfather decided to take my car to the grocery store cause his car was blocked in the garage, i thought no problem he's been driving stick for like 55 years, but no completely roasted the clutch cause the driveway is on a steep incline and didnt understand 1st/reserve. smelt like butn clutch for days after that

I am new to the mazdaspeed 3 i just bought it last week but idk if i would let someone drive it since my last experience. I had a Scion tc with intake and and exaust nothing special and let a friend drive it and he blew the engine downshifting. now that i have a MS3 I dont think i would let anyone drive it who wasnt used to the torque steer lol...

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A friend of 12 years can drive my car when ever, and most people from nator msf. My gf will never drive my car...

My best friend let me drive his Audi A4 2.0t home from pittsburg, so i let him drive my ms3 last weekend. He loved the torque steer and how quick it was.

The wife's fuel pump died in her old Cavalier, and it would cost more to fix than the car was worth. Needed a car fast, found a great 2010 Corolla S...with a 5 speed. At the time I had a truck so for a week at night I would go out with her and teach her until she got it... so I at least knew she learned how to drive stick from someone who's half decent at it. she had driven my car a few times when it was stock...once I got any sort of mods she's kind of intimidated by it and is afraid to get on it...that and I don't let her drive it after our last outing...the idea of someone driving my car and not understanding the concept of forced induction or how a turbo works (i.e. low rpm boosting = bad) kinda irks me :Eyecrazy:

I let my dad drive it to lunch right after I bought it. He's an old school muscle guy. He'd had a olds 442, el camino, 69 vette, 37 Chevy pickup with a 350.

It was fun to see his grin as he ran out third gear. My mom was in the back seat telling him to slow down. Then tell my mom its not to fast, he'll be fine. He later told me to be careful when she wasn't around (worry wart mothers, he gets it).

I tried to teach my brother his to drive it but he struggled. My girlfriend picked it up pretty quick.

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GF, dad, brother, mom, friends. Whomever.

For my car it's Me my Dad and one of my close friends.
Me: I get 400 km a tank
Dad: 300 - 350 a tank
Close friend: ranges from 300 mostly 450 though. I let him drive it when he install's parts on my car.
Top speed:
Me: 250 km
Dad: 260 km
Guess my car went though a fair share of abuse :owned:

Had an old MS3 Gen 1 guy drive my car (he is my neighbor). He now owns a BMW 135 and let's just say half way through the drive he admitted he misses the MS3.

Mom= Terrified to drive my car.
Fiance= Loved driving my car until coils went on.
Brother= Shit grin every time he gets the opportunity to drive it.
Friends= Surprised at how fast the car is after looking at it.

My wife doesn't drive it a lot but she does enjoy it when she does. She drove a manual Mini Cooper S before we had our first kid. She used to give me shit when I first got it about not being smooth on the shifts. That stopped after she drove it the first time. The only other person who has driven mine so far was at the tire shop. The kid who tried to move my car inside the shop stalled it 4 times in a row! He got out and another guy moved it.

The wife is the only one to have driven her so far. I trust her and she's a pretty careful driver and can drive a stick like a champ.

As far as anyone else goes, nope. I don't trust any one else, except maybe my dad, but he's lives out of town.

I'm mostly happy no one has asked to drive it, because I don't want to have to deal with the bullshit of saying no.

LOL!

What did he do?? 5th to 2nd?

Nobody in my family nor the gf have driven it. Her brother keeps asking me to, but given how he drives his truck...well, any vehicle really...I'll pass.

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Wow how do you guys drive?!
I must be the granny of MS3 drivers.. I get in the low 600kms per tank (though the estimated distance it says I can drive on my latest tank was like 830kms LOL).
I only go fast on occasion... when someone pisses me off or when I'm showing someone who doesn't know what the MS3 is all about..

We boost lots haha. Stock I got around 500- 550. Cranking your boost to 20 psi and it will eat your tank up at one point I was averaging 19L/100km haha. Plus @secondchance taught me how to drive a boosted car haha. But I usually shift around 4 k. Or it could just be cause I'm 19. I usually do city driving that maybe a reason. I just got $2500 scholarship time for turbo swap!:dance:

I let/wanted/asked my girlfriend to drive my car this past weekend (saturday). She doesn't drive stick. I taught her briefly once back when i had my regular 6 about a year ago in a parking lot so she never got out of 2nd gear. So in the speed6 we were on a long stretch of road that ends at a dead end and no one ever drives on.

She stalled only once and after that she was golden. She got enough speed to get into 4th gear. We got to the end of the road and turned back for another round, in 3rd gear i told her to get to 3000 rpm and then floor it! She was a little hesitant at 1st but she did it and she LOVED it. Right after that she was like "Omg, now i understand why you love to floor it and get into boost."

Oh and my friend who has a 5-speed mustang drove my car for the 1st time after my girlfriend did, and surprisingly she did A LOT better than he did haha. But after driving his car, i understood why. His clutch is completely different. But still, it was hilarious.

She asked me to go again on Sunday, so we did :)

Fiancé- with me- dropped clutch in first without any throttle, it stalled, she cried and has been passenger only ever since.

Dad- with me- liked it, reminded him of his RX3 from the 70's( he pulled and shipped motor to Cali to get work done to it, put back in and straight piped exhaust ), but he's not overly excited

Brother-in-law- with me- holy shit this thing is fast (stock at the time) he approves

Mom- without me!- well lets just say she asked to move it out of the driveway, and came back 30 minutes later with a giant smile... She last drove stick in the late 70's in my dads rx3.... I literally thought she would stall it parking in the street... I know who I'm calling if I need a driver

My wife is the only one that has driven it without me in the car.
I'll let pretty much any sober person drive my car when I'm drunk to get me home.
Ruined clutch/insurance claim is a lot less than DUI.

My friends sister drove it once - about a 7 mile drive through city streets - I think she stalled it about 20 times. Got home safe though.

I dont let anyone drive it.
If anyone fucked anything up, well that wouldnt be good...

I let my mother drive it to go pick up my dog after I'd had too many drinks last xmas. She's driven sticks for the last 30 years or so. As an intoxicated passenger the the trip was pretty entertaining. She drives an S40 and was not used to the power so she roasted the tires from a dead stop then chirped 2nd gear while fighting the wheel. I guess she usually just floors the S40 and wasn't ready for what the MS3 put down when floored.

When I was younger I used to be anal about allowing other people to drive my cars, but now I don't care...it's just a car.

Haha will I get added to the list? Nah I'm jk but did drive Regan and Alex's Speed 3.

I'll let some one else drive mine when I sign my title over and they have paid me for it. As for not boosting in 5th, I've hit 160 in mine so you could say I've boosted in 6th...

Both my parents love my car, and my dad thinks it's a sleeper which in a lot of ways it is. :baby:

Let my grandpa drive it once. He only said a few things about it.

"Definitely not a V8."
"Torque steer is going to get you killed."
"Your clutch sucks, I think there's something wrong with it."

So that was the last time he'll be ever driving it.

LOL! The question is how do YOU drive. 400-500km/tank sounds about right in the good days. What my computer says at fill up and the end result don't match up. After all, I have this car because I love driving and not because I care about fuel consumption, although as a University student I should...

You never know ;) My speed should be pretty boring to you compared to yours though...

With 20 miles on the clock, the wife attempted a small burn-out up the driveway. She hasn't driven it since, but she's a good driver so I don't worry. This car just doesn't interest her. she also had to take the Buick one day when her battery died. She called me later "wow, that car is fast". I KNOW she didn't apply full throttle because her response would have been entirely different....along the lines of "Don't you ever take the kids in this car!"

The ex-wife, however, didn't have a straight panel remaining on her car. She is a horrible driver. In 7 years of daily driving the Buick, I NEVER let her drive it....not once.