LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) Anne Arundel County police say two men who tried to carjack a vehicle ran off when they found out the car had a stick shift.
A man was talking with acquaintances early Tuesday at the Exxon on Camp Meade Road in Linthicum when two masked men, one with a gun, tried to take his car.
But the suspects ran off when the man said his 2005 Volkswagen has a stick shift.
A manual transmisson as a security device? LMAO!
I have been saying this for years. The number of people who can drive a manual car dwindles every generation.
The driving schools don't teach it anymore. I can't. I'd like to learn but none of my friends have a manual car and you can't rent them anymore.
my friend remembered a whole lot of grinding gears and the mechanic yelling "no es syncro, no es syncro."
I used to work with a guy who says he and a friend decided they wanted to learn to drive a stick shift when they were seniors in high school so they stopped by a local used car dealership one day after school and said they were interested in buying a car and asked to take one for a test drive. The salesman was busy so he tossed the keys to a "Mexican mechanic" and said take these guys for a drive. My friend remembered a whole lot of grinding gears and the mechanic yelling "no es syncro, no es syncro." I'm pretty sure he didn't learn to drive a stick shift in 20 minutes, but at least he had a chance to get the basics. I doubt that a teenager could walk onto a lot with his best friend and test drive a stick shift these days (or any car for that matter,) but an adult probably wouldn't have too much trouble. When you stall 3 times in the parking lot the salesman might question rather you've driven a stick shift before, and may ask you to go learn how to drive one before destroying any more cars on his lot.
This is why I like driving a stick. Most dumbass kids cant figure out how to drive it. Suckers.
Sorry but manual transmissions are obsolete.
The driving schools don't teach it anymore. I can't. I'd like to learn but none of my friends have a manual car and you can't rent them anymore.
Sorry but manual transmissions are obsolete. Ferrari refused to put a manual in the 458 Italia stating they will not use such outdated technology in a supercar and I for one agree.
The 458 is the first in Ferrari's range that wont be offered with a manual transmission. This is because the fumblings of the driver would just slow things down. The seven-speed gearbox, made by Getrag, has two clutches so it can shift seamlessly and in the blink of an eye. It used to be that if you opted for an automatic gearbox in a Ferrari it would be at the expense of performance now its the other way around.
Sex is obsolete when you can do artificial insemination. Yet I bet your wife/girlfriend/cousin tolerates your "fumblings".
Sorry, you are wrong. I've never owned a car with an slush box, and probably never will.
the ferrari transmissions have no relation or characteristics of "slush boxes"