# Subaru Baja - auto or manual

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/subaru-baja-auto-or-manual/60466>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** subaru, baja\
**Created:** [January 25, 2011, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/subaru-baja-auto-or-manual/60466 "2011-01-25T19:32:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcparadise](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mcparadise/32/32_2.png) [@mcparadise](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mcparadise)\
**Post date:** [January 25, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/subaru-baja-auto-or-manual/60466/2 "2011-01-25T19:53:24Z")

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If your wife will be driving it, get the automatic. Happy wife, happy life.

If you’re worried about towing capacity you’re looking at the wrong vehicle. The Baja is not a truck. It’s a station wagon with the rear section of the roof removed.

If your’e worried about “machismo” I can’t help you.

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