I've been towing caravans for many years and we are currently on our 4th or 5th Mondeo Estate tow car. I currently have a 2L Mondeo diesel est 180 BPH manual gearbox 67 reg. I'm quite happy with it, but recently we got the "3 year itch". So we've been window shopping new or nearly new tow cars. It seems that the only options these days are automatic cars.... I've driven automatics in the past - but never as a tow car. The other recent development is the hybrid versions, which again seems the option "everyone" is selling. The advice I'd like is what is the collective thinking on automatic tow cars and Hybrids in particular. The hybrid in question would be what is called a (non plugin) mild hybrid from Ford. PS we did start looking at SUVs but they have nowhere near the boot space of the Mondy and in some cases are actually too light to tow a 1500+kg van. Thanks guys - Graham