I tend to think there’s a racial element here.
Most blacks drive Automatics (not that they couldn’t drive sticks...in fact, they could almost certainly drive them better than whites, that are either airheads or metrosexuals).
But anyway, buying a car that discriminates against one class of thief sounds A LOT like a Title 9 violation. Hopefully the Justice Department will not convict, but you never know.
Where does it say they were black?
Most everybody drives automatics. Why bring race into it?