New Curt Trailer Hitch Installed on IS350
09-05-09 | 08:30 AM
#46
I find it sad that so many people in the U.S. have bought into the marketing hype that says it takes an SUV or pickup truck to tow a trailer. I wonder why that hasn't happened in most of the rest of the world. Are we a nation of sheep?
OK, I admit I'm a "geezer". I remember before SUV's existed and when nobody had a pickup truck except farmers and those needing them for commercial businesses.
Everyone used cars to tow trailers -- sometimes very long and heavy travel trailers.
The movie "The Long, Long Trailer" came out in 1953 and I first saw it in about 1955 in my grandfather's theater, The Roxy, in Huntsville, Missouri. My job as a little kid was to hand my grandfather the next real for mounting in the projector.
The film made fun of people with no towing experience hauling huge travel trailers on winding mountain roads. It was funny then and it's funny now.
OK, I admit I'm a "geezer". I remember before SUV's existed and when nobody had a pickup truck except farmers and those needing them for commercial businesses.
Everyone used cars to tow trailers -- sometimes very long and heavy travel trailers.
The movie "The Long, Long Trailer" came out in 1953 and I first saw it in about 1955 in my grandfather's theater, The Roxy, in Huntsville, Missouri. My job as a little kid was to hand my grandfather the next real for mounting in the projector.
The film made fun of people with no towing experience hauling huge travel trailers on winding mountain roads. It was funny then and it's funny now.
In fairness, most cars in the 50s and 60s in the US were both RWD and body-on-frame, both of which are a lot better for towing than the unibody FWD cars that were the norm for a "car" when everyone starting thinking trucks/SUVs were what you need to tow.
Not to say you can't pull a jetski with a Ford Focus or something.
09-05-09 | 11:32 AM
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The RWD and AWD IS, GS and LS are more suitable for towing than the FWD ES and HS.
09-11-09 | 06:50 AM
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Aftermarket exhausts? It depends on how they are designed.
09-13-09 | 07:30 AM
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Sorry, I don't have a lift to raise the car and therefore I can't get a photo from under the car. I was able to do the whole install without raising the car off the ground.
