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They are not very good at towing or even driving on wet grass though!  We have changed our BMW for an audi because of this.

Your car unladen is 1570kg. 85% of this sticking to the guidelines is 1334kg. This well within bmw's stated max towing limit of 1500kg. It is 170bhp. All of this means it is more than capable of towing any normal 2 berth caravan. Especially by the time you load your vehicle.

Your rear wheel drive may be a disadvantage in a damp field but I am not convinced of this as you will have the weight of the towbar on the rear wheels.

No problemo!

It is the rear wheel drive that we had problems with and we were towing a FC not a caravan, but as it was a Pathfinder it weighed  about the same as a small caravan around 1000kg laden.

 We had no problems on the road at all but campsites where you had to drive onto grass to park your unit were a nightmare and we always worried that we would get on and then not get off again if it rained!   This limited us to hardstanding only.

Hubby loved the car but it had to go for the reason stated above and also because we went back to having two dogs and needed an estate to fit them in.

It was not an advantage to us and we nearly got thrown off a site when our car got stuck!!!  Having said that we were not the only ones getting stuck that day and it might have been due to the fact that we were a FC in a sea of caravans.  That particular site is known for being a bit snobby. 

Seriously it has casued us problems on grass pitches.  (we could not get off the drive in snow either but were not trying to tow then) and we have also worried any a time when pitched on a grass slope, just in case the rains did come.  

We only got the new car this week so this is a recent thing.