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Turning Off the Engine and Parking a Stick Shift Car

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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 Off the Engine and Parking a Stick Shift Car

This video will show how to turn off the engine and park 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. Now, I am going to show you how to turn off the engine and park a stick shift vehicle. Some vital points to remember. Remember that in a stick vehicle to always press the brake, if you are in neutral or the clutch is depressed, otherwise you will roll. Remember in a stick shift car to always use a parking brake, otherwise the car may roll, even when the engine is off. As an added measure of safety, you should always leave a manual transmission car in gear when it's parked so if you are on a hill with the nose pointing up, you should leave it in first gear to prevent rolling backward or if your nose is pointing down you might want to leave it in reverse to prevent the car from rolling.

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