Toyota fake 3/4 ton spotted, overheated
We were on our way out of the Jug Hollow camping site on Flaming gorge a couple of days ago when we ran into a traffic jam on the 5 mile dirt road into the area. A bit unusual. Turns out some peop...
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BenK wrote:
Marketing nomenclature is, at best, misleading
Know that few will, the rest will continue to use marketing, but the best is the use of it's ratings
GVWR, GCWR, rear GAWR
And best among them is GAWR
A minimum of 6,000 lb rear axle rating is my preference for my TV
A forever circular discussion using marketing's half ton, 3/4 ton, etc...which has their specification in a constant flux...
This seems to capture it. Based on limited experience, my view is that the Tundra / Sequoia is a better-than-average tow vehicle for and within it's ratings. If required to tow in excess of the ratings, I'd feel better about using a Tundra to pull anywhere between 101% to 120% of it's ratings than a similarly rated GM or Ford....I'd feel better with the Tundra, but have towed in that range with Toyota as well as with my GM's and Fords and they didn't catastrophically detonate.
...but for me personally, I wouldn't use any vehicle for towing over ratings for often or for long.
