In recent years, other than sports cars, most American cars have automatic transmissions. As a result of this, our young people no longer have the joy of stalling out on a hill or revving up the engine at a stop light. But there is also another side effect–cars with stick shifts are less likely to be stolen.<\/p>\n
Fox News<\/a> reported today:<\/p>\n About an hour later they approached another woman in a Kroger parking lot in the city\u2019s Hillsboro neighborhood, grabbed the keys out of her hand, got into her vehicle and were gone in less than 60 seconds.<\/strong><\/p>\n Not with the car, but on foot. Police said the car had a stick shift and the juveniles didn\u2019t know how to use it, so they gave up.<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s not an unusual scenario anymore as only about 3 percent of cars are sold with manual transmissions today, according to Edmunds<\/a>, while a recent\u00a0U.S. News and World Report study<\/a> found that less than 18 percent of Americans can drive them.<\/strong><\/p>\n The Nashville teens didn\u2019t make a clean getaway. Police spotted and arrested them soon after the incident and charged with robbery\/carjacking, theft of property, and attempted theft of a vehicle.<\/strong><\/p>\n All we have to do to stop the younger generation from stealing cars is to buy stick shift cars! We can also use cursive writing as a code since many of our young people can’t read it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In recent years, other than sports cars, most American cars have automatic transmissions. As a result of this, our young people no longer have the joy of stalling out on a hill or revving up the engine at a stop … Continue reading