How many don't pull a TOAD behind their coach?

I think it just depends on how you travel and what you do when you get there.

We would travel, park the motorhome for a week or two and do a lot of siteseeing in the surrounding area, many times in a 100-mile radius. A lot of it is done on unpaved roads because that's where the good scenery is located. There are some mountain drives that a RV couldn't do. We might also decide to go out for a meal on a whim. It's much easier to just hop in the car. Going to a national park is a lot easier to tour in a car than finding a parking space for a RV. Parking at a trailhead to do a hike would not have enough space for a RV, in most cases. We love geocaching and you definitely wouldn't do much of that in a RV. It takes you to places you'd never know were there - most often on unpaved gravel roads.

The places we go wouldn't have car rentals available. We like the boonies.

If you're a weekend traveler you could easily do it with a car. If you're traveling the country for an extended time, a car would be necessary for us. I guess it just depends if you do things outside of the campground. We spend very little time in a campground. We're out there to explore.

We didn't used to pull and still don't if we are going where we have transportation, but there are places you can't visit with a Motorhome. We tow when going where we need a car to get to those places.

In our 10 years with our Class A I've not yet setup a Toad. I've pulled our ATV trailer, boat and a few other trailers for events, but never our Jeep. For a couple of major trips we rented a car while we were in one place.

Not having a car has forced us to plan better or do without. If we really need something I can be unteathered and pulling out in a few minutes.

However, we're not full timers and our use of the RV was for family vacations, now that the kids are in college and beyond the plan is to set the Jeep up for flat towing.

I don't leave home without it.

Have never towed since started RVing in the late 90's. Go on many several long week trips each year and have only hired a car twice in all that time = LA and surrounds for ease once for 3 days, and LV several years ago when we stayed at Oasis and wanted to explore outlying areas for 3 days again.

We've never missed not having a toad with us thus far, and intend to continue initially when we start FTing. FWIW we drive a 37ft Gas A class, and rarely stay in CG's unless there is little other option for where we wish to explore.

We are travellers (sometimes only moving a few miles down the road), not sitters for any length of time, so will be interesting to see how things unfold once we start FTing and if we have a change of heart over time.

We've also got very very used to the convenience of having the RV close at hand no matter where we may be visiting or travelling - fishing, water activities, visiting parks/attractions etc. Food, drinks, bathroom convenience to name but a few things we like having it close at hand for.

Lets see: 7 mpg or 40+ mpg to go sightseeing assuming we are not over length for the side roads in Yellowstone (most RVs are). Rarely do we go shopping in the toad as we have stopped while in-route to resupply but no big deal if we decide we need something. We usually put as many miles on the toad on three month trips out West and more on it when snowbirding. In 13 years we have not left home without it... even for short trips close by.

For our first big adventure (on the road for six months) we wanted to keep things simple so we didn't tow anything. We ended up spending $3000 to rent cars (second highest expense after CG fees). Stopping at Walmarts along the way helped, but we would havw missed a lot of local attractions ( and a lot of good food ) if we had no car at all.

Lessons learned from the first big adventure - tow a car and get 4 - 6 volt batteries and 300W of solar.

We have been full time for 11 months and so far just use a chase car. I think towing would be nicer, but we have not taken the plunge for a few reasons...Spouse prefers driving cause car to towing...Current car drives great but would not tow well...We bought a "starter" motorhome to try out fulltiming and may trade up...Most of our driving days are fairly short and well spaced.
So if I am among those toad-less coaches you see on the road, there will be a car following me.

I don't tow a toad. Thus far, I have very rarely if indeed ever regretted that decision. I'm also definitely more in the "travel" than "stay in one place" crowd, and in the "vacation" rather than "lifestyle" crowd.

From time to time when driving I keep a mental count of the motorhomes I see along the road with toads vs. those without. It's far from a scientific poll, and pretty much limited to the northeast, but it seems to me to be roughly a 50-50 split. That's not the sort of split you'd likely get from a poll on this forum; I suspect that there's a greater representation of full-timers or snowbirds here than among the broader RV user population.

Way back in teh 60's we did not tow a car, we towed a boat, the Camper was 20 feet long and we didn't hook up to anything. We could park on Main street.

With our re-entry into RVing we have towed since day three. First three trips no Toad, two were one stop destinations and back home, one we rented a car. Since then we almost always take the Jeep with us. On occasion when I am going out to a match and I know I'll be parked on the range with friends that can drive out to dinner I will leave the jeep home, but that is rare. We also camped a couple times a year with my brother, he had a trailer so we would just hop in his Suburban, he now has a Class B so we'll be towing on those trips now as heading out and around to Flea Markets and the like will be easier than having him unhook.

Had a few friends that only rented but they were in a unique size, a little too big to tour downtown and a little too small to comfortably tow.

I lived on a sailboat for 10 years, when ever we went out we always had a dingy. Trying to get launch service is hit or miss. I feel about the same with towing vs renting. I have the vehicle with me, also it is sort of like a life boat. I can go from the RV to help if needed.