Ha! Ha!
I never really thought of having a manual as an anti-theft device, but I guess these days it is.
My family has a tradition of driving manuals — although my daughter, who drove a manual all through college, has yet to teach her husband to drive a stick. But it’s increasingly a skill confined to gearheads. Of my younger son’s large cohort of friends and associates, only one, who definitely qualifies as a gearhead, besides my son could drive a manual.
None of the big three even offer a manual in their ton and a half trucks. Only autos, what a crock.
I read recently that a manual transmission is the best anti-theft device you can have. I had my oil changed at a JiffyLube a while back. No one there could drive my vehicle (370Z) in or out of the bay. Had to do it myself, a violation of their safty rules.
My other half doesn’t have a clue how to drive a stick. But it’s nice to know she’ll never wreck my S10.
We have five drivers and five cars. The only car that is not a stick is my 2004 Yukon which does not have a third row seat and is just old enough that a thief might think it is not worth the effort.
Fixed.
I have two biological anti-theft devices for may car. The older one, who’s half pit and half black lab, weighs 85 lb. and the younger one is a 110 lb. Great Dane. Nobody’s tried to break into my Navigator while they’ve been there.
We taught our daughter how to drive in a manual then that’s what she drove for years. Recently she was telling me that none of her friends know how to drive one and laughed.
As a middle-aged lady, I find that driving a 1997 F-350 V-8 diesel dually with a stick is such a guy-magnet.