New tow car selection

A hummer

Don't see a problem with 300hp and 400nM of torque in a petrol, a lot of 2L diesels in 180hp guise come in at around 400nM of torque and handle 1600kg quite well.

Just leaves the weight and noseweight suitability, but sounds like a nice engine.

We had a petrol 2ltr auto last year that on paper should have been a good tow vehicle how wrong that was

the  diesel we now have  still 2ltr is worlds apart as a tow vehicle with far superior MPG and far more grunt for towing and both the same model and year

Yes 'JVB', I remember it well , but the OPs engine is over twice the HP capacity yours was and more than twice the torque.

If it was your original car I would have kicked it into touch, I believe it only managed 193nM 

The trouble is not having the same torque as a diesel but when does the torque come in, as with diesels is very low in the rev range where petrol's it's quite high. Deep pockets will be required. I would like to know what make/model your looking at as 300bhp is very high for a 2l petrol.

Might be a twin turbo charger though! one tuned for low down and the other for higher up the range thus giving a good spread of power/torque, whatever it will as you say be heavy on the pocket.

I would like to know what make/model your looking at as 300bhp is very high for a 2l petrol.

I think Jaguar produce one, at least I believe that is what a chap I know bough a year or two ago

Correct ET its a JLR model.

Heres a few more details

And i thought our petrol needed deep pockets

Have learnt to maybe a petrol for solo but not for towing