Manual or auto for towing

147,000 km out of a clutch when you’re towing every day is a pretty good result, so I wouldn’t complain about that. There’s very little difference in terms of towing between and auto and a manual, but by rights you should have had an auto serviced twice in the distance you’ve done in the Courier and that servicing would have been more expensive than the cost of replacing the clutch in your manual.