But I’ve never thought of them as an anti theft device.

US car thieves floored by manual gearbox

By Lester Haines
Published Thursday 21st June 2007 10:06 GMT

Two US would-be car thieves failed dismally to make off with a Honda Accord after discovering it had a mysterious manual gearbox, RTÉ reports.

Having menaced the owner with a gun outside a pizza restaurant in Georgia, and relieved him of his wallet and car keys, the pair of teen master criminals prepared to make good their escape. However, according to an employee of the pizza outlet, “they could not start it because it had stick shift”.

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