Best beater car with : towing and has mileage

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car was written off, going to keep ms3, turn it into my track car, and then drive a beater, which i would like to have the capability to tow with.
not a car trailer but the car on rollers


98 legacy with the automatic tows 2000lbs what ive found so far

i would be towing a car, think about 2800lbs

would like the best gas mileage for this beater

any suggestions?

[Wanganrunner]

LT1 or L98-powered D-Body Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham.

mileage is meh (although better than you'd expect), but with the tow package they can tow 4,500lbs.

[Live-Wire]

This has been done...

-American BOF cars from the 90's (install tranny cooler if they don't have it)
-Volvo's; 3500lbs towing, wagons have self leveling suspension in many models, transmission and oil have coolers factory installed
-Subaru's, 2000-3500lbs towing, cheaper to run, completely gutless tho... not as nice to drive. May kill the transmission (install cooling if not in place)

Or you get a fairly cheap truck (with gas prices climbing, won't be hard)

... Your mileage will be not much better then 20-25mpg combined with anything with a tow rating. You might push high 20's to 30 on the highway with some of them.

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thanks live

you seem to have covered all the bases