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Originally Posted by Mike Wevrick  I agree with most of your post except this. It's quite common outside the US for people to pull trailers with small cars. My Impreza is rated to pull 2000 lbs and that's conservative; in the UK the Forester is rated to pull over 4000! |
it is great that your impreza can pull 2000 pounds and the forester can pull over 4000...but here in the area of the united states (not great britain) where i live, i have never seen a subaru pull anything...even if it were possible.
for some unexplainable reason, the people living around me have enormous boats that they love to pull with every long weekend holiday. have you ever seen the size of the campers that so many of my neighbors pull? they are enormous! 4000 pound pull capacity is not even remotely enough for my neighbor that lives across the street from me. his weekends consists of a rotating use of a 20 foot trailer he stuffs with motorcycles, jet ski's, camping equipment and who knows what else for his wife and seven kids. of course, this is when he isnt hauling his 40 foot boat around as well and have his wife follow in another vehicle with whatever junk they are bringing. personally, it seems like so much work to get everything ready, loaded, unloaded and then put away...i have no idea how this is 'restful'...but to each his own.
perhaps i live in an unusually heavy area where people just have to haul crap around...and not just a little of it but a lot of it. from my personal circle of friends, i am actually out of the norm where i dont have massive amounts of crap to haul around. the overwhelming majority of my friends or acquaintances have a large boat, have horses, have large pieces of recreational equipment. when i ask them why they feel a need to move all this stuff back and forth, their answer is that their parents did this and feel that this is 'normal'. is this 'average' american life? most likely not. does it exist in the america that i live in? yes, and with increasing frequency despite continuing climbing gas prices.