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If you're a thief and you can't drive a manual car then something is wrong with you.

• freehunter 14y ago
  Thievery comes in many forms. The ones who steal cars that aren't worth anything on the black market aren't really going to be the smartest or most well-connected. Street punks really, and in the US manual transmissions are incredibly uncommon. A hoodlum will only know how to drive stick if he/she has had access to one and someone to teach them. While manuals are more common on cheap cars and street thieves are more likely to drive cheap cars, they're still quite rare. Basically, if you're a smart thief and you can't drive stick, you have something wrong with you. But then again, if you're smart and also a thief, there's something wrong with you. If you're smart and also a thief and also stealing a rusty, beat up, 5-speed, early-90's Japanese truck, you obviously want it more than I do. I could just buy another one for <$1000.