Just curious anyone either give their kids or themselves driving a stick shift ION for the first time and how is it holding up transmission-wise? I have had my '07 ION for 8 months now. I haven't really owned a manual drive car ever but have driven short distances in many. Driving one every day is quite the different story. It took me about a month to work out my bad shifting habits, but me and my ION are humming along just fine now. At 33mpg average, (vs 25 average in my automatic SC2) I can't complain about this powertrain.