I'm a "car person"—grew up watching Top Gear, etc. When I bought my first car, I bought a Scion XB with a stick shift, particularly because I was buying it (use

I'm a "car person"—grew up watching Top Gear, etc. When I bought my first car, I bought a Scion XB with a stick shift, particularly because I was buying it (used) at around the same time the Tesla Roadster and very early Model S were hitting the roads. I realized that electrification was imminent, and that it was increasingly likely that my next cars wouldn't even have a gearbox (in the user perceivable gear-shifting sense). And, boy, I was right: my lineage of vehicles was Scion XB -> Tesla Model 3 (first production) -> Tesla Model S Plaid. I was so right to get a stick shift when I did. I recently rented a car in Argentina while traveling with a friend, and it was so much fun to go back to stick for a week.