Ultimate towcar?

Well our Kia Sorento will take a lot of beatting having covered 50000 miles mostly towing excellent tow car

We currently have a Ford S-MAX 2.0 TDCi which is a great towcar for our Sterling Europa 565. Plenty of power when needed and loads of room for the kids and kit.

Best of all, it has a DAB radio fitted as standard so I can listen to 6 Music. ;-)

We tow our elddis twin with a mitsubishi shogun long wheelbase

3.2 diesel, this is our second shogun in 11 years,both have been very reliable and very good tow cars.  m.p.g is about 20 towing.

We towed down to the south of France last year our Sorento did well but fuel consumption not great,but you can't have it all!!

Last year we upgraded from a Bailey Monarch to a Bailey Valencia so we then needed to upgrade from a Vauhall Zafira to Hyundai Santa Fe 2010 happy with both.

As my handle suggests i,m a volvo man and have used them for towing most of my vans.I tend too have cars with more than enough power and weight too do the job easily.

peter.

We have a Volkswagon Touareg and it's by far the best towcar we've ever had  ...highly recommended!

Still no views on the BMW x1 then?

I have the Mazda CX7 S Spoert Diesel. Great towcar pulls my Odyssey with ease but also got the looks, unlike some box designs that are around. Plus plenty of gadgets to keep me amused  like heated seats , sat nav, 6 stack Mp3 Cd.leather .traction control etc. overtaking warning system , reversing camera. etc handles like a normal car as well in corners.

Used many different cars over the years, Rovers , Datsuns ,Fords etc. All had their good points and of course bad, The last Ford was a Scorpio Estate (2.9 v6 12v auto) Thirsty and absolutley no traction on any sort of damp surface ! Went over to 4x4s after starting to go to centre rallys, as these tend to be in fields !. Had a 4.0 ltr Jeep Cherokee for over 10 years, again thirsty but very reliable, it never failed to get us home ! Recently upgraded to a Grand Cherokee (4.7v8 !!!) as the poor old Cherokee was starting to get a bit "tired" and was struggling a bit with the van on the back, a Lunar Solar Elclipse 615. Strange thing is it`s no thirstier than the the "little" Jeep as it`s a big engine hardly using it`s muscles.