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[FW28z]

Yea, that sucks. But you can still dolly tow the electric Focus. With the lighter weight of the Focus, adding the dolly still means you are probably only around 3,500lbs.

I kind of struggled a bit with buying a dolly (and keeping our Maxima) or buying a different car to dinghy tow.

Really, there are advantages and disadvantages to both.

Dinghy towing to me seems a bit Rube Goldberg. You got to do some voodoo transmission rituals with some vehicles (check out the procedure for the CR-V), and then, you need to put in some kind of brake system (or at least should), then have a battery issue to contend with, and so on.

And of course, towing this way means you should service your transmission more often as well as more wear and tear on at least the front end.

In contrast, dolly towing is much more simple, but you have a lot of un-sprung weight on the front, which might result in a harsher ride when towing.

Some also point out it's harder to attach a vehicle to a dolly, as well as having a place to store it. I really did not think that much of an issue though.

What it really came down to for us was gas station accessibility. This year, we used our RV without towing - at least until late Sept. when we got the Pontiac outfitted.

Of the times we had to fill up at a gas station, two times I had to back out from the pumps. I would not be able to do that with a tow vehicle attached - dinghy or dolly - so the ability to more quickly detach the tow vehicle when at the pump is what ultimately made us go with dinghy towing.

Otherwise, dingy vs. dolly towing is not much different in my view.