Two pedals good, three pedals better? How to drive a manual car

For the uninitiated – or less mechanically minded at least – driving a manual car is fraught with fear, anxiety, and plenty of stress. So much so in fact, that across four of the five top-selling brands in Australia, only between one and three per cent of vehicles sold in 2023 have three pedals in their footwell, Toyota being an outlier with manuals accounting for 12.9 per cent of its total sales.