Have your wife enrolled on a driving school, pick the Civic too for her to start with.

Though I really believe that some people are just hopeless when it comes to sticks, that's why whenever your wife ends up so, I'd suggest that you buy her a small car instead -- a second hand i10, getz, picanto .. or heck, even the small Chevrolets !

In that way, you shell out about 200k too and you get to have two cars on your garage pa. The other one can even be your coding vehicle.

You know, as they say, two is better than one ...