Another reason why you should go for manual over an auto/DSG box...

[Domel]

Avoid carjacking, buy a manual

[Candyman]

Avoid carjacking, buy a manual

Well, if you live in the USA where the crims are dumbarses

In Aussie, they prefer DSG vehicles cos they go faster

[wai]

Actually, the article does not show that it avoids carjacking. In the examples cited, the drivers/owners were carjacked, just that the thieves subsequently discovered the cars were manuals and so abandoned them. The cars were "carjacked", and who knows what might have happened if the drivers told the carjackers that it was a manual before they got in.

Now if you really wanted to avoid carjacking, you should have a dirty great big sticker on the car saying that it is a manual (whether it is or is not doesn't matter as we are dealing with people who are intellectually challenged). Now you only have to hope that the dumb members of the criminal classes can actually read...and understand what they are reading in their possibly drug induced state!

[Candyman]

It is a manual

See, dumbarse crims.