Standard vs Auto for towing?

[TrainChaser]

Gary, that is how I was feeling, but with nothing to back it up.

I was wondering why so many of the newer ones that I am seeing in ads were automatic!

You guys just answered another question I had been wondering about, too! Apparently, when young guys steal vehicles, many of them are not familiar with a stick shift, and run away when they discover they don't know how to drive it. Another form of Theft Control, I guess.

Some years ago, I drove my sister down the local transmission repair shop to pick up her pickup. :-) I walked into the building, and they had a transmission on display. Looking it it, I wondered how ANYONE could have come up with something that complicated. I can't believe Henry Ford started out with those...