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    Posted: 16 Jun 11 at 9:58am
within my household it is illegal to tow with a toyota mr2.  Even the mere thought of using an mr2 to tow receives a severe sentence, and the suggestion that such a vehicle is fitted with a tow bar is punishable by threat of all boats being sold/burnt/given away as garden ornaments.
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Originally posted by winging it

within my household it is illegal to tow with a toyota mr2.  Even the mere thought of using an mr2 to tow receives a severe sentence, and the suggestion that such a vehicle is fitted with a tow bar is punishable by threat of all boats being sold/burnt/given away as garden ornaments.

Hmm sounds like someone in your household talks sense, particularly about burning your garden ornaments.
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I towed a Tasar with a 1.0 fiesta and was fine although needed to change to quite low gears on dettling hill.
Some guys drove from Italy to Plymouth in a tiny Fiat (126? someone correct me) for the 2003 contender worlds with a double trailer.
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Originally posted by Matt Jackson

I towed a Tasar with a 1.0 fiesta and was fine although needed to change to quite low gears on dettling hill.
Some guys drove from Italy to Plymouth in a tiny Fiat (126? someone correct me) for the 2003 contender worlds with a double trailer.
 
Did they not also have 1 on the roof? I recall seeing a picture a while back.....
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Originally posted by blueboy

Originally posted by radixon

Any car can tow


Nope. It is illegal to fit towbars on certain types e.g. Ford Ka.

After a certain age, cars can only have type approved towbars.
For some cars there isn't one.
For other cars the manufacturer's maximum towing weight may be quite small, especially unbraked.
My Dad used to tow an enterprise behind a Mini Traveller, and load the boat with camping gear. Not sure I would try that in modern traffic. Also the gearbox did explode at one point!
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Originally posted by RS400atC

Originally posted by blueboy

Originally posted by radixon

Any car can tow


Nope. It is illegal to fit towbars on certain types e.g. Ford Ka.

After a certain age, cars can only have type approved towbars.
For some cars there isn't one.
For other cars the manufacturer's maximum towing weight may be quite small, especially unbraked.
My Dad used to tow an enterprise behind a Mini Traveller, and load the boat with camping gear. Not sure I would try that in modern traffic. Also the gearbox did explode at one point!
Strictly speaking the car must be 'type approved' for towing. As the Ka was never type approved for towing it's illegal to fit any towbar to one hence no approved towbar exists.


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Originally posted by jeffers

Originally posted by Matt Jackson

I towed a Tasar with a 1.0 fiesta and was fine although needed to change to quite low gears on dettling hill.
Some guys drove from Italy to Plymouth in a tiny Fiat (126? someone correct me) for the 2003 contender worlds with a double trailer.
 
Did they not also have 1 on the roof? I recall seeing a picture a while back.....
 
I thought there was but it didn't seem feasable.
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Many moons ago, we used to tow an Osprey behind an old 850cc Mini.
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apologies for thread necromancy , towing one dinghy on a single trailer is unlikely to tax the limits of unbraked trailer law (trailer MAM 750kg) 

some small cars who can tow may not have a great deal of towing capacity in excess of that 750 kg , but I would be suprised to find any car with a 'legal' towbar that couldn't cope with the vast majority , if not all dinghies - the obvious exceptions being  the keelboat  dinghies ....
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