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Girlfriend Learns How to Drive a Stick in Her Boyfriend's 450 HP Subaru WRX

450 HP Subaru WRX Owner's Finacee Learns How to Drive a Stick 1 photo
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Try to remember the car that served as your first practice mobile. Unless you come from an extremely affluent family or were blessed with a car collector as a friend, we're pretty sure the car that took all the beating that came with your learning process wasn't as awesome as the 450 hp Subaru WRX in the footage below.
However, when the scenario involves this tuned WRX's owner teaching his finacee how to drive a stick, things climb to a whole new level.

Yours truly is going through a similar process these days and, as expected, I can probably relate to each and every spicy moment found in the pair of clips that documents the shenanigan.

I've always used transmissions as a way to evaluate a carmaker's technical level and, when it all gets down to the personal level as we see here, you'll have to watch the same department, but the clutch will be the one getting bashed. In fact, you can consider yourself lucky if your SO doesn't stall the engine more than one time per drive.

Just make sure you initiate her in the ways of the three-pedal realm somewhere outside public roads. For the record, an empty parking lot actually needs to be empty to qualify as partially safe for such a job.

We're not here for nitpicking, but we feel the need to explain the girl's driving position could be improved, while adding that the sport exhaust fitted to this Subbie can be misleading when learning how to deal with a car.

Since we're dealing with over twenty minutes of footage, albeit split into two clips, some of you might not have the time for the full adventure - we recommend you jump to the 8:30 mark of the Part One video (first clip below) for a little surprise and take it from there.

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About the author: Andrei Tutu
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In his quest to bring you the most impressive automotive creations, Andrei relies on learning as a superpower. There's quite a bit of room in the garage that is this aficionado's heart, so factory-condition classics and widebody contraptions with turbos poking through the hood can peacefully coexist.
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