Standard transmission has lower towing capacity than automatic?

Asked by Jeff_A0P Sep 22, 2010 at 02:33 PM about the 2009 Ford Ranger Sport SuperCab 4WD

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HI,

I have never towed anything before, and wanted to know the capacity of my Ranger before offering help to my brother.  I found a PDF at the Ford website which confirmed max towing capacity as 5860lbs, but gave a lower figure for a manual transmission.

http://www.fordvehicles.com/assets/pdf/towing/10FLMrvRANGERsep09.pdf

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