Do any car rental places offer manual transmission anymore?

[Anonymous]

We'd like to teach our DD how to drive stick shift but our cars are automatic. I was thinking about renting a manual for a few days over the break and teaching her. In my googling, I haven't found any manual cars available. Anyone have any ideas?

[Anonymous]

Rental companies generally don't rent manual transmissions and if they did, they don't rent for learning purposes.

[Anonymous]

Head to Europe - they have plenty!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We'd like to teach our DD how to drive stick shift but our cars are automatic. I was thinking about renting a manual for a few days over the break and teaching her. In my googling, I haven't found any manual cars available. Anyone have any ideas?

Trade in an automatic and get a manual. No one will lend or rent you a manual car for a teen to learn on.

[Anonymous]

Use Turo. That's where regular people rent out their cars.

[Anonymous]

Find a driving school that specializes in manual transmissions.

https://www.stickshiftdrivingacademy.com

[Anonymous]

We recently taught DC to drive stick (on our own car). It's going to take more than a few days for your kid to really learn to drive stick and if they're not driving it regularly I'm not sure that new-found skills based on a few days' practice will last anyway. I don't think the rental idea (even if you could find one) is workable. You need longer term access to a manual car and that's a tough sell for even a good friend or relative. I would not lend our car out for that purpose. But good luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rental companies generally don't rent manual transmissions and if they did, they don't rent for learning purposes.

Yeah they don't rent to drivers under 25 either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use Turo. That's where regular people rent out their cars.

I am sure that there are lots of people who don't care if your daughter damages their car for learning purposes. Or ask your friends and neighbors if your daughter can learn to drive stick on their vehicle, no problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Find a driving school that specializes in manual transmissions.

https://www.stickshiftdrivingacademy.com

This is really the only ethical solution, if you don't have your own manual transmission car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Use Turo. That's where regular people rent out their cars.

This. I rented a few interesting sports cars with a manual transmission through Turo. I don’t know why people rent out their manual transmission cars, and sometimes quite expensive ones as well, but they do. You can find some very basic manual transmission cars there as well for like $30-50 a day

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rental companies generally don't rent manual transmissions and if they did, they don't rent for learning purposes.

And they would know they were renting for learning purposes, how exactly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rental companies generally don't rent manual transmissions and if they did, they don't rent for learning purposes.

And they would know they were renting for learning purposes, how exactly?

As long as she doesn’t get in an accident, they won’t. If she does, you are very screwed

[Anonymous]

You going to buy the kid a car? Just make it a stick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We recently taught DC to drive stick (on our own car). It's going to take more than a few days for your kid to really learn to drive stick and if they're not driving it regularly I'm not sure that new-found skills based on a few days' practice will last anyway. I don't think the rental idea (even if you could find one) is workable. You need longer term access to a manual car and that's a tough sell for even a good friend or relative. I would not lend our car out for that purpose. But good luck.

This is what I was thinking. I own a stick shift car and have driven only manuals for nearly 30 years and sorry OP but a couple of days isn't going to be a enough for your child anyhow.