How to Distinguish 2006 LGT from a 2005?

I know this may sound ridiculous, but just need a little help here. I bought a 2006 Legacy GT wagon (5MT) from a subaru dealership up here in Vancouver BC. Did a little more research on this forum to find out that Subaru never made a 2006 legacy wagon with a manual transmission, plus the GT badge now had the 'limited' attached to it. I tried looking online to see if this was true and to find any pics of the badges, but found nothing solid. So either I have a 2005 or the previous owner swapped out the automatic for the manual. I paid a bit too much for this car because it was my 'unicorn' and I can't have this unknown looming over me. So if this car is a year older then I think it is, I feel that I should either get compensated for it or god forbid I say it, return it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can check the VIN, if it was made for the US it's a 2005, not sure otherwise. GL

Thanks for responding. I had checked the VIN. I believe the rule is, the tenth digit will tell you the year. If that's true, then it's a 2006. It's the transmission thing that's killing me. I read on two car review websites and both said only 5eat for 2006 gt wagons.

Is it a US wagon? Only 2005's had MT's

It looks to be Canadian, by the speedo only. I read a few articles of people asking the same question. One person responded with yes, only in Canada and very rare. I have found no other info to corroborate this story. May be I should just stop worrying and start enjoying (modding) my Leggy.

Canada is always the odd ball when it comes to features and emissions standards.

Yes Canada has 2006 5mt LGT wagons

Its totally the factory transmission.

 

You did get a unicorn

 

now rub it in all the Americans faces lol

05 legacy gt came with the half black half chrome headlights while 06 came with all chrome that's how i tell them apart quickly

Yea the 05 had black headlight. Also the 10th digit of the vin will tell you. If it's an 05 10th digit =5. 06 is 6. And so one. Until you hit 2010. Then it's an A and so on 11 is B etc.

I always look at vin. Because people can change headlights.

05 legacy gt came with the half black half chrome headlights while 06 came with all chrome that's how i tell them apart quickly

 

As a general rule, this is the best way to tell an 05 from an 06-07. .

 

 

I always look at vin. Because people can change headlights.

 

. . Except in the case of a wrecked car, in which case, you never can be sure.

Thanks to everyone that weighed in. I was worried that the car was altered to look like a 2006 because you can never truly trust a car lot. There has been too many instances in Vancouver where car dealers have changed VIN or info on the papers. I rushed into this car because it was everything I wanted in a legacy. Thanks again to everyone and if you're ever in my neck of the woods, beers are on me. Cheers.

Also, a sure way to tell (unless the car's had the ENTIRE front end replaced) is to look for the power steering cooler -- a tube/fin piece that runs horizontally along the passenger side strut tower. Those only came on 05s -

In the US there was a tiny subset of 2006 LGT 5mt wagons. We had one for sale locally and the listed VIN showed exactly that.