“Manual transmission as an anti-theft device” is actually an internet meme.
It’s a small part of the reason my FR-S is a manual. However, it’s a heck of a lot more fun than an auto.
Very few people and almost no millennials know how to drive a stick, that’s why I can leave my keys in the car when I walk into the convenience store.
I had to go to 3 different emissions testing stations before I could find a guy that could test my truck.
Manual transmissions are racist. /sarcasm
Manual transmissions are racist. /sarcasm
Today’s thieves are an ignorant bunch. Can’t read cursive or drive a stick.
That is priceless.
I enjoyed learning to drive in an old 1938 army jeep. It was so much fun that all my vehicles were manual until recently. And the ONLY reason that changed is physical disability in my left leg. Both my daughters learned to drive my manuals and to this day they prefer them. Youngest daughter just picked up a beat up 1990 Wrangler for playing in the mud :)
(She drives a 3/4 ton Chevy diesel for her “good” vehicle. works as an executive for an oil and gas company. Sometimes has to go out in the fields so she stays prepared)
Nice to know my kids have this anti-theft device, besides their personal weapons.
I love my BMW 325i with a five-speed. It was on the lot for 8 months before I bought it for the price of a Honda Accord.
More people out here drive a stick than an automatic-but more of us drive 4x4’s than cars, too...
My dad taught us to drive his truck-a stick-on the ranch when we were about 12-13. My husband and I taught our cub to drive a stick, too-our 4x4 Suburban-big mistake not teaching kids to drive both a manual and an automatic...
They can’t read or write in cursive, either.
My 1968 Ford XL has a 6-speed manual now, and 475 hp, and a few special kill switches. I don’t keep anything in the car as it is a convertible, and never lock the doors. There is nothing to steal and without a tow truck, it is not going anywhere. It is the only car I want to drive around town or on long road trips.
Twelve years ago a female grifter broke into our house while we were on vacation. She stole my manual transmission car. Before having someone help her push it into a church parking lot a quarter mile from our house, she did enough damage to the clutch to necessitate a $1700 replacement.
This happened in my neighborhood. It is a decent area but the thugs cruise it more now that the BLM has received government approval.
I’m a baby boomer..learned to drive “3 on the tree” ford truck...graduated to my mother’s 3 speed mustang..and happily drive my 5 speed nissan xterra today..
When I was a state copper working in Cook County I was in Chicago in the Greektown restaurant area when my partner and I monitored a Chicago Police Dept flash message about a car jacking that had just occurred in the area within the last few minutes.
Just moments after we made note of it, we heard cars honking at a late model import that was moving slowly in the left lane, jerking and stopping as other cars swerved around it. Since it matched the description of the suspect vehicle, we made a felony stop, detained three suspects who had two pistols in the car, and notified CPD Tactical officers to meet us at the scene.
These suspects were subsequently identified as the offenders in the car jacking, and the reason for the erratic driving that had captured our attention was the fact that the ringleader driver couldn’t operate the 5 speed manual transmission in it very well. One of his accomplices was an 18 wheel truck driver who was entirely capable of driving it, but the boss said that he had always wanted to drive a stick shift and this would be his first chance, so he ordered his buddy to stand down and took the wheel himself.
We wouldn’t catch so many of these clowns if so many weren’t so damn stupid.