Towing a car

But you've got maintenance costs and depreciation for two motor vehicles which must be more than for one and a caravan. I'm assuming that insurance is about the same.

Hi Lutz, It would actually for me be maintenance and depreciation for three motor vehicles, not just two.

I am not going to drive to my daughter in London for Christmas in a little toy car for 250 miles up the Motorway, or try to park a 4 tonne Motorhome in a street of terraced houses in Ealing - loaded with presents and the railway shut down  I need a real car as well. 

Probaly true for me because I used to do all my own maintenance on the caravan. However if you don't then I doubt there is much difference. I never kept track of the cost of ownership of a caravan but my motorhome costs about £1 a mile or £60 per night to own, use and maintain. The towed car would be nowhere near that, I'd guess at 20p per mile. Added together they would still be nowhere near the per night cost of a good hotel.

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although i dont tow a car behind my MH, i could easily do so as we have a 'toy car', a Fiat 500.

i used to have a large Audi Avant, too, but my darling OH gave it away to my darling son, stating (the obvious) that we didnt need two cars and a MH.

She hated taking the 'real car' to the supermarket or to our daughter's, and we both love the easy driving/parking, cheap costs and utterly reliability of the 'toy car'.

as we do 95% of our driving (when not in the MH) doing 2-20 mile trips, the odd 200 miler now and again is the pain i have to suffer.

however, IMHO, its far better than driving a needlessly large car for tiny trips to the paper shop, which i see folk doing on a daily basis.....when im walking or cycling....

to have a large caravan requires a large and thirsty (and a pain to park) large vehicle, often a very large one....4x4?

funnily enough, i often see the largest people getting out of the largest vehicles after the shortest trips....any correlation, i wonder?

 

Prior to owning a m/h we had a large caravan, large tow car and my small car. So 3 lots of insurance and maintenance and 2 lots of tax. The m/h costs less to insure and tax than the tow car, service about the same. Habitation service around the same as the caravan. 

We do tow my small car on an A frame and at home use it for everyday use, its just big enough for the suitcases when going to the airport. We did have a second car for a shirt time (sons) but it didn't get much use. As we are away for half the year in the m/h having the small car is just fine.

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Some years ago I had a Swift Sundance. I looked into towing a car behind it but found it was limited to 750 kgs.  There were very few cars that small at the time. 

 The original "Smart4/2" Pure  is a lightweight !!.Towed one behind my 'Autocruise Sunningdale for years !!

Is even  it 750kg or less? My later 451 Fortwo is 850kg 

I guess it's al down to individual wants and needs. There are areas/sites / destination your cant reach in a car and caravan. We have had some wonderful holidays on remote and tranquil sites where only smaller motorhomes and campervans could go. Yes one could visit in a car but if you wanted to stay over night or a few nights you would need to use a tent or at best a camping pod which on a couple of these sites are available to you.

Our friends with the motorhome and tiny towed car can also uncouple and drive those difficult miles separately. They are then free to use this car at will for the duration of that stay. For them it works very well and opens up more opportunities for overnighting in beautiful, remote places. Waking up in stunning surroundings and, in my case going off for an early morning fish ijust as the sun is rising is pure heaven.

It's all about choice and widening choices with a towed car may be the answer for some.

I'm sure our fiat 500, if weights agree, would have been just the ticket but other makes are available.