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Re: Tow vehicle thoughts: compact P/U's?

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Subject: Re: Tow vehicle thoughts: compact P/U's?
From: Alan Dahl <adahl@eskimo.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:56:20 -0700
On Wednesday, October 23, 2002, at 03:27  PM, Rick Brown wrote:
> I believe most of the smaller SUV's only have a tow rating of 3,600.  
> I have
> a Mazda Tribute with that rating to tow my DSR with, but trailer and 
> car are
> under 2,000.

The one exception in compact SUVs is the Jeep Liberty (and the Cherokee 
if you are looking at used vehicles) which has a tow rating of 5000lbs 
when equipped with the 6-cylinder and the automatic. I have towed my 
Miata on a 16' aluminum car trailer with my '89 Cherokee (with 200k 
miles on it no less) and it pulled just fine. Got 15mpg too...

- Alan Dahl

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