What TT for a car enthusiast?

Gdetrailer wrote:

Ductape wrote:

rvsixer wrote:
The real world TT tongue weight of even the lightest of trailers, a WD hitch, and a hitch carrier will eat away most all of the payload rating of a 135 LOL.

Use the SUV (just FYI, many of those can't tow a real TT either).

WD hitch? Lots of European cars are towing trailers of the size discussed and none of that gear.

OP, you are not going to get any love for small cars around here.

http://www.canamrv.ca/

European trailers also have the axles placed closer to the front of the trailer. This nets a much lighter tongue weight than American trailers.

Europeans also do not have the "super size" mentality of Americans either.. That means they take less with them to boot allowing a smaller vehicle/trailer.

As far as someone mentioning WD.. Most small trailers can not be outfitted with WD and or the trailer manufacturer states to not use WD.. In a nutshell the tongue and trailer frame are not able to withstand the added strain that WD puts onto the trailer frame.

At the same time many small unibody vehicles do not have enough structural strength for WD either.

A catch 22 for sure..

Granted there is the outfit in the link that Ductape mentioned that has a pretty good success rate at setting up small unibody vehicles for towing but that is just ONE "shop" that is willing to bend a few "rules" to do so..

Full hard sided trailers present a lot of wind resistance, not to mention side wind resistance.. Makes for a less than ideal towing experience.

I personally have towed a small open utility trailer with a unibody, it worked but was not a fun experience..

Didn't know better until the day I hitched that trailer to a pickup truck. Night and day difference.

Would I go back to towing with a small unibody? Nope, I would rather give up camping than to go back to a unibody tow vehicle.

Europeans go on shorter Journeys than North Americans, tend to stop more often. Payloads are smaller. That is a generalisation, they do go 1500 miles on a Holiday, and have 800-1000lb payloads Big downsize for their Caravans is they are not stable Off Road or at high speed, but another Generalization as they can be towed at 70mph with right sort of hitch
Still you can have no problems towing a TT with a Unibody Car, millions do You have to keep up with the traffic with combination below or you get fined, that is 100-120kmh here . 50kmh is speed limit in a Country town