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I know, problem for me too. Not just handy for poppong to the shops.  It would be better towing a little car, but you might as well tow a caravan in the first place.

Doesn't matter really, need the Lottery win first, and it's a bit slow coming.  Perhaps this weekend.

Jim

As a TD% Auto box driver:

Dont even contemplate a manual!! Imagine trying to pull out into a busy round-about with the 'van on the back. With the manual your passengers are thrown forward and back with every gear change. With the auto: it just flies out in one smooth manouerve.

Moreover, have you ever had to manouerve your outfit, forward or backwards in a tricky space? Or inch down the motorway in standing traffic for 20+ minutes? You know that manual burning clutch smell?? Us auto drivers don't get that smell, or hat leg-ache.

I cannot understand why anyone would want to tow with a manual.

Strax.

I am a great lover of manual cars. However, for towing, auto is in my opinion, a must. I have a steep driveway and the smell of burning from my clutch in my old audi 100 v6 when shooving the caravan up there made me cringe. The auto box handles this with ease.  Many people think that the burning smell from from their car when they finish pitching up is due to the journey. You will find that it is in fact due to the clutch slip whilst positioning their home from home. 

As stated so many times above, even an auto box can be ruled by the driver with it's various selections.  This is even more so with the ever more popular trip-tronic auto boxes. 

One thing I would say though, the bigger the engine, the better the auto-box performs.  A 1.8 auto saloon will be useless and even most 2 litre cars will have to work hard.  I've had a 3.1 Trooper, an Audi allroad 2.5tdi and now a disco 3. All have been fantastic auto tow cars.