We recently purchased a 2014 Ford Focus hatchback with automatic transmission. We were looking for a manual transmission but could not find one in our area as it was too late in the model year. The automatic can be flat or dolly towed no problem but we chose to dolly it as we have other vehicles we might want to tow. With the tow dolly we chose (EZ-Tow), there are no brake or lighting wiring issues to deal with.
We Just drove the Focus itself on a 2,800 mile trip and got an average of 35 mpg. Comfortable, handles great, plenty of power (even at the 90 mph flow of traffic in Indiana) and only cost us about $230 in gas for the whole trip.