Tow vehicle selection & performance
To start, we're strongly considering purchasing the Grand Design 2400bh but we need to upgrade our tow vehicle as well. Bottom line up front: We're a military family that moves frequently and I want t...
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I don't know if you've thought of it, but you might want to consider a full-sized van as a tow vehicle. Many of them can be equipped to tow a trailer of that size and have a good bit of payload left over. (The Nissan NV3500, for example, has about a thousand pounds more payload capacity than the Armada.)
I'm far from an expert on such things, but the Armada looks to me to be rather on the marginal side for towing that trailer. It may be worth checking if there are specifications on frontal area for trailers for the vehicles--sometimes manufacturers specify that as well as weight. On the highway, you're not just pulling the weight with an RV, you're also adding a good bit of aerodynamic drag.
I'm far from an expert on such things, but the Armada looks to me to be rather on the marginal side for towing that trailer. It may be worth checking if there are specifications on frontal area for trailers for the vehicles--sometimes manufacturers specify that as well as weight. On the highway, you're not just pulling the weight with an RV, you're also adding a good bit of aerodynamic drag.
