Front wheel Drive vehicle for towing?
My wife and I are looking to purchase a vehicle to tow a trailer camper + or - 19 feet. There are a number of front wheel 6 cylinder..300+hp cars..which have a tow rating of over 5,000lbs... Example: ...
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What price range are you looking at? We use a VW Touareg TDI and it's a good tow vehicle for a 19' trailer like the one in my sig. It's also small enough to park anywhere when used as a daily driver, is great in snow, and is quite fun to drive with all that torque. It's expensive though -- way more than a V6 front-drive anything. The Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel is another choise that is similar, and Mercedes has one too.
Unibody is not a problem if the vehicle is rated to tow with adequate tongue weight carrying capacity.
Note that with any smaller SUV you will be very close to allowable tongue weight and payload for the vehicle, so it's a compromise that may or may not work out for you depending on what you put in the vehicle while towing and how you load in the front of the trailer. We put EVERYTHING in the trailer and just have our 2 dogs in the back, which add up to about 375 lbs of people and dogs in the vehicle.
Unibody is not a problem if the vehicle is rated to tow with adequate tongue weight carrying capacity.
Note that with any smaller SUV you will be very close to allowable tongue weight and payload for the vehicle, so it's a compromise that may or may not work out for you depending on what you put in the vehicle while towing and how you load in the front of the trailer. We put EVERYTHING in the trailer and just have our 2 dogs in the back, which add up to about 375 lbs of people and dogs in the vehicle.
