vehicles that be flat-towed

As a follow-on to rockhillmanor's post, we already had a paid for car we liked a lot that weighed well under our towing limit, a 2002 Toyota RAV4. We did find that we needed to install a Remco transmission lube pump to make it 4-down towable, but the cost of that was considerably less than the cost of trading in the car for a make/model we would not have liked as well. I installed the pump, base plate, and wiring myself, and we towed that car for about 30,000 trouble free miles. When we were ready to buy a newer toad, I found that everything on the 2002 RAV4 would swap right over to the then new 2011 RAV4 that we liked, except the base plate, so that's what we bought. We've now towed our 2011 RAV4 nearly 20,000 trouble free miles. My whole point being that towing a car we really liked was more important to us than the extra cost of modifying it for towing. Don't tie yourself down to only those on some list. Do your research...