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Originally Posted by Nursx2

I towed my 2012 Ford Fiesta 5 speed standard from Ohio to Niagara Falls twice, Florida once, Myrtle Beach twice, Williamsburg once, Chicago and Maryland behind our old 2003 Sunseeker 3100SS class C over the past 4 years without one problem. No extra braking either; going up and down the hills of Tennessee. Did not even know it was back there until you feel the extra bounce when driving over a bridge overpass.

The only thing strange when towing my Grand Am (about 3,000lbs) is when going around curves at highway speeds, I sometimes get the sensation the coach is being pulled to the side from the rear. Hard to tell from the rear view camera whether the car is on the same centerline as the RV around the curve.

Not as bad as when I pulled my last trailerable boat though. It weighed more than my pickup, and I had to be very careful when taking corners, especially with gravel on the road. The boat wanted to push the truck forward as I went around a corner. I always got the sensation I was about to jack-knife the truck.

But the geometery of pulling boats is a lot different than a travel trailer. The boat/trailer weighed about 6,500lb, but like most treailerable boats, it didn't require an equalizer hitch as the tongue weight is a lot less, due to the tail-heavy weight of a V8 engine in the back of the boat. The trailer was a tandem and coupled with a V8 in the back of the boat, the tongue weight was pretty light.

It just made for a squirrelly feeling when towing. Towing the car with my motorhome feels a lot more like that boat than a typical travel trailer.