What scares me is when people buy a car to tow horsetrailers and horses... The average UK trailer weighs in at about 800kg (empty) the average car can tow about 950kg, that is not a lot of horse - and yet you see people towing with 2 horses in the trailer. We looked for a 4x4 (before we bought a truck to move our horses), and amazingly most dealer garages dont know about the towing weights of their vehicles. "yes sir, it will tow a horse trailer". A Vauxhall Frontera 4x4 can tow LESS than my old Toyota Avensis family car! We decided upon a Range Rover - which weighing in at 2,000kg itself - has a towing limit of 3,300kg (and 8,000kg in an emergency at 18mph!!) 1 trailer @ 800kg + horse1 @ 750kg + horse2 @ 700kg = 2250kg - well within the limits. Anyway - we now bought a 7.5ton truck - and we are closer on the weight limit than with the trailer - its amazing how much stuff you DO carry when you CAN carry it. ;) -Jim On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:47:05 -0500, Eoin Ross wrote > My guess is that its due to everyone wanting to do 70 MPH while > towing, you just can't do that in a Justy without lumping in a load > equaliser and anti-sway. > > Anyone see that Tog Gear episode where they went on a caravaning holiday? > > >>> mailinglist3@farcite.net 27 Nov 07 15:18:23 >>> > On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 14:33 -0500, Jeff Findley wrote: > > For cases where I really need to carry something big (i.e. a front door > or full 4x8 sheet of whatever) my brother has a trailer. > > It's funny, in Europe trailers are everywhere, you see Audi A2's with > trailer hitches and Subaru Justy's hauling trailers, yet here in > North America (except Quebec) there is this perception that to use a > trailer you need a truck or SUV... > > TTYL > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist