Fortunately, last year I was able to augment my manual transmission vehicle collection with a new turbo-gas, AWD, m/t Station wagon to provide reliable long distance trip capability to the fleet.
It may be the last new vehicle I may need to live out my daze.
YMMV...
LOL. Years ago a friend of my Dad’s had a beat up rusted out Plymouth Valiant, Slant 6 and 3 on the tree that he was planning on getting rid of. He parked it at the Green Acres Shopping Plaza on Long Island, at that time it was considered the car theft capital of the world. Sure enough someone tried to make off with it. It just so happened that one of Nassau County’s finest was patrolling the parking lot and noticed how the would-be thief kept stalling it out because he didn’t know how to drive a stick shift and got busted.