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Jumi Kim
Co-founder, President, CEO, Capital Dream Cars
www.capitaldreamcars.com  
703-785-9357

Jumi is a founding member, president and CEO of Capital Dream Cars— Washington, DC’s premier exotic car rental company as featured in The Washington Post, Goss’ Garage, and SpeedTV.com. The business was inspired by a hobby and a need. Apart from owning her own exotic cars, Jumi would travel to Formula One races with friends and family—to Montreal twice for the Canadian Grand Prix and to Indianapolis for the United States Grand Prix—but when she looked to rent a Ferrari locally, her search came up dry. So, after much pioneering determination, she and two business partners launched Capital Dream Cars in March 2006 to fulfill the “dream car” dreams of Capital Area car enthusiasts like them. Growing up, Jumi always enjoyed driving, but it wasn’t until she learned to drive stick about 15 years ago and bought her first stick vehicle—a little green Acura Integra GS-R that still takes up a spot in her garage (and still runs great at nearly 200k miles!)—that she understood driving on a whole different level, not just as a way of getting from here to there. And perhaps it was her own small way of rebelling against the gender stereotype that girls can’t drive, let alone drive stick. Although she doesn’t presume to be a great technical driver, she enjoys driving fun cars and sharing her enthusiasm with others, which is, after all, what car enthusiasm is all about.

How to Get Moving in a Stick Shift Car

This video will show how to get moving in a stick shift car.

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Hi, I am Jumi of Capital Dream Cars. I have been showing you how to drive a manual transmission car and now, we are onto the very exciting step of actually moving and shifting some gears. My foot is on the brake right, now we are idling. Now, we are going to get moving. So, we are going to put our left foot on the clutch, put our gear in first, foot on the brake, left foot on the clutch, now you move your foot off the brake to the accelerator and as you give it gas, let out the clutch and we start moving. Once the tachometer reads between 2000-2,500 rpms press the clutch, shift into second gear and then repeat the same process for third and onwards. If you want more power and acceleration you can wait until the rpms are higher before shifting into a higher gear but you should know that your fuel economy will decrease if you do so. Now, that I have shown you how to actually shift gears, let us move on to how to slow down and downshift in your manual transmission car.

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