OUR JOURNEY
Over the last 8 years we perfected our craft. Shift NorCal is a company built from the experience of successfully instructing thousands of students how to safely and properly drive a manual transmission car.
OUR MISSION
Redefining the stick shift experience.
Many companies who provide manual transmission driving lessons either do it as an upsell to their existing business, or they allow just about anyone to sign up as an instructor and "pass down" the techniques they were taught. Both of these approaches have issues, mainly when these "passed down" techniques are either technically wrong or can be unsafe.
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That's why we created Shift Bay Area in 2018 and Shift NorCal in 2020, so that we can teach people how to safely and properly drive a manual transmission car on the open road.
2026 brings a new chapter to Shift NorCal with our premium Subaru WRX experience. Dennis, our founder, will be your mentor as he guides you in learning this exciting new skill.
Dennis Chernyukhin
Founder, SHIFT NORCAL