It’s been said that the best protection against car theft, is owning a manual transmission vehicle. Unfortunate not a whole lot of options left in the U.S. It is sad tho.
Honda made a batch of manual transmission Accords just three years ago 😀
Thats an old Journo trick - if somone is retiring or moving on it is worth checking articles / they used to do it fairly often.
Some are kinder than others :0)