I'll be holding out, too.angry wrote: ↑Wed Aug 05, 2020 10:53 amYou aren't the only one. I learned to drive on a stick and every vehicle I've ever owned has been a stick.
I also appreciate the value of it as an anti-theft device, particularly when I lived/worked in Los Angeles, SF Bay area and Miami. The only "problem" I've ever encountered is when I had to valet and none of the valet drivers knew how to park my car.
The anti-theft piece is just icing on the cake.
Someone got into my FJ a few months ago when I left it unlocked overnight in the driveway. I found it parked crooked about five feet downhill from where I left it, seat scooted way back for a tall thief, but still there! An acquaintance with a manual tranny left her keys in an unlocked locker at a Denver rec center. Security cameras captured a woman watch her leave, raid the locker, then go out into the parking lot holding up the key fob, pressing the button until she found the car. She got in and shortly thereafter, got out and threw the keys on the ground in a huff. Ha!
Many basic skills are being lost as people devolve into useless shites and let tech do everything for them.
The valet thing never occurred to me. Damn