Sometimes thieves get angry.
A manual transmission saved one girl’s life in a carjacking around here.
The villains couldn’t drive a stick and made her. She was able to coast slow to a stop and bailed out. The car went on.
I have a stick shift in my very nice low rider s-15 I just bought- I had to get a car RIGHT NOW and the only one other for the money I had had a pool of oil on the cement under the motor. The trucklet also has a separate ignition cutout switch that is not obvious. No one is going to steal it without pulling it up on a flatbed. It is mechanically perfect and looks nice and I never had a car with working AC before. Those shocks are requiring some fortitude and inurement, though.