Honda Car Forum

I definitely wouldn't practice on a new car. I would have someone teach me on their car first. You don't want to ruin the clutch/tranny. Grinding gears, yuk. The Si is a good choice though, I think the Acura RSX though is way better looking, and the price and performance is pretty good. I mean you can go for an automatic RSX and lease it, and I think in a year or 2 years or something they offer you a newer car, so you can get a manual transmission the second time. I think Toyota and Mitsubishi does that too. The cool thing about Si's though is that they have LSD and they have iVtec, but they look just like the base-modeled Civic's and they aren't that great looking. I think it's a pretty big change from a Maxima though. I would think of a '07 Toyota Camry, or even an Acura TL.