So is mine. There is a real advantage to driving a Jeep with a stick down a steep, narrow trail at 10,000 feet in the mountains. Put it in compound low and first gear and crawl down the road without having to touch the pedals.
A Jeep's auto tranny can overheat in those conditions and the brakes will get hot from constantly hitting them as the auto won't hold you back like a stick will.
We’re flatlanders but have lots of mud. As long as you enter the mud in 4 low - 1st or 2nd, it’ll pull you through by itself. Mr. Liberalh8ter likes it especially because doing it this way, he doesn’t spill his drink! LOL
In effect, the engine becomes a complex liquid-air hybrid frictional braking mechanism, rejecting waste heat through its exhaust and its radiator.