Anyone Towing a 2014 Honda CRV EX-L

JL7456 wrote:
We also test drove a 2014 Honda CRV-AWD EX-L today and found it very nice. We checked one out seven years ago and the difference from then to now is night and day. We have not made a decision yet on what we are going to buy, but the CR-V is now in the mix. For the last month we have been checking out the Ford C-MAX Hybrid and thought that is what we wanted, until today. I have never owned anything other than a Ford product but this may be a time to switch to a car that we know is towable, proven and there are lots of them on the road. Thanks to everyone for all of the useful information. The decision has to be made in the next two months. The Ford is still a nice vehicle but do we really need a hybrid.

We, too, had seriously considered the C-Max until we discovered that it had no spare tire and no space for one without taking a lot of the already small storage space. It is one of many new cars without spares; the argument is that the can of Fix-a-Flat and a pump are all you need to get to a tire dealer.

The problem is that when you're in places such as Death Valley or the Canadian Rockies the distance to a tire dealer can be large. Furthermore, the Fix-a-Flat won't work if the flat involves a sidewall puncture.

If you purchase a spare and store it in the C-Max you have very little space left. After further consideration we also realized that a hybrid wouldn't much benefit us with the kind of rural/open country driving we are usually doing.