I heard that is the way to theft-proof your car-to have a manual transmission.
Sounds good, but today's emotionally incontinent young thieves would just set the car on fire in frustration!
Yup. Funny story: my daughter’s girlfriend caught a thief on video trying to steal her Mustang with a stick. He couldn’t back it out of the parking spot. Too funny.
I recall some incident probably mentioned here where an owner was shot during a car jacking for just that reason. Would be thief was frustrated.