Towcar of the Year 2020 Winners

As an EV owner I can understand the judges being absolutely smitten by the iPace and this seems to have rather gone to their heads. 100 miles would get me to our nearest CL and back and I guess we could buy one of those pod style vans. What on Earth were they thinking?

what do these so called testers do for the rest of the year and what qualifications do they hold or does this club just waste our membership fees to produce results that the testers would like to drive or what extra discounts they get for better results. Bye the way, if you ask nicely I will give you the results for 2021.

The 'bigging up' of the iPace is comedy gold. Towing limit of 750kg. Towing range is mentioned rather evasively as a number slightly in excess of 100 miles.

But..it accelerates from zero to 60 in only 6 seconds! Zero to sixty is always my first priority when I'm buying a towcar. Yes, well I'm pretty certain you're not going to get 100+ mile range on THAT setting.

Who would tow with an electic car, evan if you could find a caravan small enough to tow. Just returned from the Yorkshire moors back to the Midlands, we would have had to charge up 3 times just to get there!

How on God's Earth can an electric Jaguar I pace be even considered as a Tow Car ? £65,000 and a tow limit of 750 kg !!!! a bad joke. 

If I ever see such an outfit on a Club site I will gladly donate £10 to the Wardens benevolent fund.

Please, Please be realistic we want genuine viable alternatives not pie in the sky politically correct rubbish.

An Idea : if Jaguar and the makers of this 'pod on wheels' are serious why dont they sponsor an 'I Pace does the NC500'  should be entertaining !  Start point :Lands End.  I'm sure someone could be coerced to drive it.?

Lets see the club chairman do it as another freebie, Ro please make the arrangements, might need a few support vehicles though🌞😜

Is 750kg enough for this i-pace to be able to tow a small generator . . . ?

Like many, I’m baffled by the selection of cars for the TCOY test. And the criteria for scoring / detracting. Many cars were praised / criticised for having a temporary spare wheel readily available or hidden under all the boot contents. I thought we weren’t supposed to tow with a “toy” wheel in place. This is a towcar test. Also, the Subaru was criticised for its CVT transmission not being suitable for towing. So why test three of them with the same transmission? The Kia Sorento lost marks for no battery/ fridge wiring. On the car supplied maybe, but this implies that a previous TCOY winner doesn’t run the fridge on 12v at all. 

Having recently changed my tow car, I had a long list of boxes successfully ticked: substantial kerbweight, good power and torque, good nose weight limit, full sized spare wheel (easily accessed), lockable 4wheel drive if needed, decent reputation for reliability, and a price tag a little over half that of the class winner. Sounds ideal? Was it tested this year? No, nor any others of the make. Maybe the Club can only test what has been offered by the car companies, but who can blame them for not participating when their potential buyers are put off by irrelevances. 

Here's a thought.

I would love to be able to test a range of tow cars in real conditions (albeit on a test track) as all the figures and data in the world in the handbook don't really help. Next time there is a TCOY, can the Club contact members who have significant experience of towing using different car/caravan combinations and say 'As this is your Club, what do you think of these cars and can you give us your input?' 

Hello, is that a pig I can see overhead ......