Prius towing a travel trailer? Yes.

Optical illusion,,, Prius,guy,trailer,large car, thats the depth.....

ls1mike wrote:

travelnutz wrote:
JJ Spectre,

Don't need a hobby as I have so many. Being a retired engineer of about 4 decades, analyzing and/or deciphering pics and documents is just easy, quick, and natural to/for me.

The photo is real it was hooked up, engineer or not. You are wrong.
I guess you have not gotten gas at Costco before, but anyone who has gotten gas there will tell you have plenty of time to get out and walk about. I get all my gas there. What would I gain by lying about it? Why would I have taken the time post it?
It was interesting to me that guy was towing a pretty good size trialer with a Prius. What else in that photo would be towing it? It came off my phone. When you blow it up it is even more obvious.

I have said my peace. You Nay sayers can go on trashing me, but I know what I saw and have no reason to lie.
Good day.

Count me in as believing you. No reason why the Prius couldn't tow that little TT a short distance on flat ground. I towed one about that size with an '84 Isuzu P'up diesel years ago. Less HP than the Prius. It would barely do 60mph flat out in 4th gear against the governor but it did it. Any incline or slight breeze would knock it down to 45~mph. We only did it once. If the trailer is gutted for a hunting shelter or meth lab, it probably doesn't weigh 1500 lbs with 150 lbs on the hitch.

Good Grief!!! an accident waiting to happen. Something you might see in China or India.

looks hooked to me, but it would beg the question "why" and that coming from me is saying something as i used to haul a tandem axle flatdeck trailer with a 77 chevette..ah to be young and dumb again.. :S

I believe it. What I can't believe is people waiting in line to save 5 cents a gallon knowing that by the time they drive 6 blocks they already burned up the savings!!! Or idling there waiting....

travelnutz wrote:
JJ Spectre,

Don't need a hobby as I have so many. Being a retired engineer of about 4 decades, analyzing and/or deciphering pics and documents is just easy, quick, and natural to/for me.

The photo is real it was hooked up, engineer or not. You are wrong.
I guess you have not gotten gas at Costco before, but anyone who has gotten gas there will tell you have plenty of time to get out and walk about. I get all my gas there. What would I gain by lying about it? Why would I have taken the time post it?
It was interesting to me that guy was towing a pretty good size trialer with a Prius. What else in that photo would be towing it? It came off my phone. When you blow it up it is even more obvious.

I have said my peace. You Nay sayers can go on trashing me, but I know what I saw and have no reason to lie.
Good day.

JJ Spectre,

Don't need a hobby as I have so many. Being a retired engineer of about 4 decades, analyzing and/or deciphering pics and documents is just easy, quick, and natural to/for me.

wnjj, copy and blow up the pic 300% or 400% and look at it.

travelnutz wrote:
...I outlined the photo's vehicle, trailer, and crank down jack in an AutoCad 3D transparency overlay on my engineering computer and then rotated into sky view and WALLA! The trailer's hitch ball would be 8" to 12" behind where a normal WD hitch ball would be located.

You need a hobby! :D

For those who do not have CAD and want to determine for themselves:

I'll give you another way to know within an inch or two how far the crankdown jack is back/behind the center of the Pruis where the vehicle's hitch ball would have to be located.

Place a dot on each side of the trailer's max outside width point outside of the top clearance lights and measure the distance. Now draw a line straight towards the camera lenses. Next measure the distance from the closest trailer dot palallel to the trailer's side over to the drawn line to the camera lenses. You know the trailer is either 7' wide or 8' wide and by knowing these 2 measurements (the base and the height of a triangle) you can easily calculate the angle the pic is taken at and find the actual angle for both possible trailer widths. Using that same angles you know know, you can find exactly where the center of the prius bumper's point is and also the exact center of hitch ball. Also, by using the crank down jack location, the center of the trailer's coupler ball location.

Don't even need a CAD program to determine that the trailer's coupler ball couldn't be within 8" min of the ball location on the Prius using the most favorable measurements.

Nuff said!