Living on a mountain, I love manual transmissions. You don't have to ride the brakes all the way downhill. But there's another great reason to go with a manual - a lot of people don't know how to drive with them:
A BUMBLING carjacker turned into a driving disaster when he failed to steal a vehicle because he couldn’t operate a manual.
Only able to drive an auto, the alleged car thief made off car-less.
The incident happened on Monday in Ashfield, in Sydney’s inner west.
This is the third such incident I've read about in the past few weeks. Of course, carjackers aren't exactly on the gifted end of the intellectual spectrum.
