Cars to avoid?

tatest wrote:
You have two choices. The towbar can stay on the towed vehicle, or it can be carried by the towing vehicle. Both choices require a towbar pinned to a baseplate on the towed vehicle, which is usually bolted to the frame or sub-frame, not welded (there is little to weld to, on today's towable vehicles). There are towbars that mount to brackets on the bumpers of utility vehicles like older Jeeps, but even these are bolted on, not welded.

There is a wide (but shrinking) range of vehicles towable four down, including many older 4WD utility vehicles, many manual transmission front-drive subcompactsedans, many years of GM and Saturn compacts with 4-speed OD automatics, and a few compact or mid-size pickups with manual transmissions. My own towable vehicles have included a manual transmission 2001 Ford Ranger and a 2012 manual transmission Honda Fit.

What to avoid? Anything that can't be towed four-down. That list is a lot bigger than the list of what can be towed.

Thank you. Bolting/welding is irrelevant. Basically, I don't want to have to struggle to hook up, but I also don't want to leave the hitch on the car.

I would love to find a manual transmission vehicle. And it sounds like that would be my best option.