Question about tow vehicle capability
I'm new to the forum, looks like lot's of great information. Hope my question doesn't repeat a previous thread. We're buying our first trailer (moving up from a pop-up) to be towed by a 2018 Hyund...
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Living in NY, you'll be dealing with hills. We had a V6 Explorer when we made our upgrade from a popup to a full-height trailer (a hybrid in our case), and we lived at the time in the flat plains. We definitely noticed a big difference in towing between the two trailers, but it wasn't until we took a trip out to the Badlands that we encountered such a stiff headwind that the poor Explorer had all it could do to go 50 mph, and of course the gas gauge almost visibly descended (we got about 6 mpg that day). We weren't even trying hilly or mountainous terrain! We realized we could never take this combination into the mountains, so we traded the car in for a truck. Never looked back. (Incidentally, the GVWR on the hybrid was 5000 lbs, and the tow capacity of the Explorer was also 5000, as I recall. I know it wasn't less.)
