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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.

Turning Corners, Rolling Stops, Stop-and-Go Driving in a Stick Shift Car

Car expert Jumi Kim demonstrates how to turn corners and deal with rolling stops and stop and go driving in a stick shift car.

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Jumi Kim: Hi I am Jumi of Capital Dream Cars. I have been showing you how to drive a manual transmission car and now I am going to show you how to handle turning corners, rolling stops and stop and go driving. If you have slowed down but not come to a complete stop and you need to pick up speed again then you should place the car into a gear that is most appropriate for your speed. So here we are coasting in neutral, let us say we are coming to the stop, it is a red light, then let us say the light turns green before you come to a complete stop and you want to pick up speed again. So pop it into second gear, if you are going at lower speed and then just accelerate again. Now, people always ask, what gear should I use, when I am turning a corner? Well, it depends on your speed. So here is an approximate guideline. Use second gear when traveling between one and ten miles per hour, use third gear when traveling between 10 and 25 miles per hour and use fourth gear when traveling between 25 and 40 miles per hour. If you are driving in stop and go traffic, avoid staying on the clutch for long periods of time which is called riding the clutch because it is bad for the clutch and wears it down instead stand your break as long as possible and then shift into gears when you can. Now that we have discussed turning corners, rolling stops and stop and go driving let us move on to the challenges of uphill driving in a manual transmission car.

THANKS by tutter19 at 08/04/08 01:17AM Flag

Thanks alot Jumi. No one every tells you what to do when you have to turn corners. Your Hot! thanks again

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