Which towing car for Sterling Eccles 590?

LR Disco, Mitsi Shogun, Toyota Landcruiser, some of the XC Volvos.... the world's your lobster.

It's auto for me every time but it’s personal preference.

Hello and welcome to Jo and the rest of the Reed family.  I'll move this into the Tow Cars and Towing Section which is more appropriate.

I'll second the suggestion about a Land Rover Discovery.  

I can recommend the VW Touareg, we tow  a Sterling twin axle with ours.  We went for a pre registered one, only 14 miles on the clock, and made a huge saving.

Definately automatic, have not towed with a manual since 1971.

A Volvo XC 60 might be OK, but check the weight, an XC 90 would certainly do the job, but expensive.

The Kia Sorrento ( is that the big one?) also seems popular and a lot less money.

Yes, the Kia Sorrento is the big one, we bought one recently and the top of the range Sorrento is about £9,000 cheaper than the bottom of the range XC90. A head v heart decision perhaps? Both makes are joint top for reliability according to JD power data.

It's an excellent car and tows extremely well.

Look at carwow.co.uk and get some quotes which you can either take up or use to barter with other dealers. Also good reviews.

I always towed with a manual before and had no problems (last towcar had 155,000 miles before retirement) but this one is automatic and I'm never going back 

We always had Volvos since 1971, but our XC 90, which we had for almost 10 years, turned out to be a lemon!   So we decided against another.  That and the price!

The XC 90 we had had more faults than all our other Volvos put together, and over the years we had 10 other Volvos.

We would have voted them top for reliability too until that experience.

everyone will tell you that the car they use is the best as nobody will admit that its not suitable. its like everything in life that its down to personal preference. there's a tow car that will suit but it's all down to you as to what you require when/not towing.

Thanks everyone.

We've also found that they Hyundai Santa Fe is heavy enough too. Anyone towed with one?

Thanks,

Jo

The Santa Fe is basically the same car underneath as the Sorrento, it just look different on the outside, Kia has a 7 seven year warranty v 5 for the Hyundai

The club has an offer on Hyundai cars see:

https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/membership/member-offers/Hyundai/

some good reviews on youtube, for a few makes by Practical Caravan and the CCC

These are the ones I had bookmarked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKJl5cCl6AQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOsVtkFuN40

Hi The Reed Family,

I have owned and driven the big Volvos for 35 years and towed big Swift vans for 28 of them.    My last 3 cars were XC70s and, even though I switched to a MH in 2016, I will not be parted from my XC70.     They stopped making them in Dec 15 and brought out a revised XC60 (you can still buy 2 different new XC60s, old and new, but the new one has a silly price tag on it.    You should be able to get a very good used XC70 that will do the job.   And, if it is Polestar'd even better!    Polestar is Volvo's formal remapping of the engine sold as an option and designed by a Swedish sports car company for Volvo, it gives more bhp, torque and fuel consumption.    My 2 yr old XC70 is now 240bhp.

It is a nightmare having so much choice.   Happy motoring!

BillC