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they are a 60K rip LOL.

but yeah the new ones have a lot better trim spec. i drove a 2011 model one the other day and they are a fair improvement over the old ones. mate of mine has a 97 model and its just crude as hell.

i just bought an 08 model... seems like its got plenty power for towing. if it can sit on 110 without downchanging for a slight hill then thats decent for a tow car for me.

Good tow cars need to be multi purpose or they are a waist of $

I chose the SS crewman cause I like rwd, V8, large tow rating, 4 doors, leather and my wife can drive it easily so we can take it to the shops, holidays and the track so fuel was one of my last concerns and I drive it over 100kms every day.

But this thread is getting funny so keep it coming :-)

yea they dont sit on 110 that well

i find that a little odd since i recently towed my car to calder park from adelaide using a mates 97 model RNZ hilux with the 2.7l petrol. While it required lots of gear changes and revs to get up to speed it sat on 110 reasonably well on the flats. chewed fuel like no tomorrow tho lol

just picked up a q7 i shall repoport back on it towing

Tested it yet?

Q7 - V8 - awesome. Comfy as a lounge as well.

Q7 towed my GTR upto Coota from Melb. That was with extra fuel, 2 people & the boot/seats folded & packed to the roof with gear & other parts etc.

Held 110-120km/h through the Divide with ease, stuff fuel economy when it's midnight & only just on half way there!

Tested it yet?

Q7 - V8 - awesome. Comfy as a lounge as well.

Q7 towed my GTR upto Coota from Melb. That was with extra fuel, 2 people & the boot/seats folded & packed to the roof with gear & other parts etc.

Held 110-120km/h through the Divide with ease, stuff fuel economy when it's midnight & only just on half way there!

trying to find pic of Q7 and R at sau nats at shep that i took.was that your GTR?? cant get a better tow car than that

you said 110 without down changing

will find out how she tows on the weekend

lapstone hill at penriffff with 2.5t on the back shows if its good or not

I'd say it would have down changed given some of the hills we were going up :P

trying to find pic of Q7 and R at sau nats at shep that i took.was that your GTR?? cant get a better tow car than that

Same Q7 - different GTR.

The R32 on the trailer is Aaron's, owner of Import Monster. He towed my R33 to Coota for Drag Battle last year in the same car. Was a simply delightful journey

f**k fuel eonomy, Give me grunt. The 4.8 patty has 330 kay on the clock now and can still tow a heavy arse hire trailer with the whale on board at any speed you car to mention this side of 170 kph. (private road of course)

A set of headers and a decent zorst system plus an ecu and tune did wonders for the economy and added another 30/40 killawasps of grunt to the mix.

Keep buying shit box monocoques to do a mans job and you're just throwing money away in the long term. Of the 6 pattys I have owned in the last 25 years the lowest kays I have on any of them before I sold it was 440 thou. The most was 730 thou. That vehicle was purchased by a family of large coconuts and I still saw it cruising around town for some years after.

In all those years and kays apart from regular servicing I have replace 1 radiator, 1 starter motor and one set of shocks.

As for comforts I am surrounded by leather, wood grain, bose steroe system, tiptronic, electric everything, more airbags than ballons at a kids party, Sunroofs, front and rear climate control, 7 seats, armrests, cupholders everwhere and so much more.

My miniscule mrs has no qualms about jumping in it and pissing off interstate whenever it suits her or just using it as a shopping hack. If theres a better bang for buck vehicle out there I havnt seen it.

i find that a little odd since i recently towed my car to calder park from adelaide using a mates 97 model RNZ hilux with the 2.7l petrol. While it required lots of gear changes and revs to get up to speed it sat on 110 reasonably well on the flats. chewed fuel like no tomorrow tho lol

oh yuck, i've been there.

Na silvia on a heavy arse hire trailer in my old 00 2.7 petrol hilux. Poor thing struggled with just the trailer on hills and i had to get it up Mt Ousley with the car on....

My current 09 4L petrol hilux tows pretty happily, seats are an improvement but still shit. You feel it the next day if you've been in the drivers seat for more than 3 hours. Yes i'm getting old.

On falcon fuel economy: meh, the challenge is to see if you can hit 99.9L/100km on the trip meter while towing :) It would take a full tank to do the campbelltown-wakefield round trip in the old falcon ute.

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I'd say it would have down changed given some of the hills we were going up :P

Same Q7 - different GTR.

The R32 on the trailer is Aaron's, owner of Import Monster. He towed my R33 to Coota for Drag Battle last year in the same car. Was a simply delightful journey

what a look

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oh yuck, i've been there.

Na silvia on a heavy arse hire trailer in my old 00 2.7 petrol hilux. Poor thing struggled with just the trailer on hills and i had to get it up Mt Ousley with the car on....

My current 09 4L petrol hilux tows pretty happily, seats are an improvement but still shit. You feel it the next day if you've been in the drivers seat for more than 3 hours. Yes i'm getting old.

On falcon fuel economy: meh, the challenge is to see if you can hit 99.9L/100km on the trip meter while towing :) It would take a full tank to do the campbelltown-wakefield round trip in the old falcon ute.

i used to be able to get my magna trip computer to do that just by flooring it up a hill in 1st gear (full throttle, high rpm and low speed = high fuel usage)

Hitting 99l/100km isn't the challenge - it's maintaining that fuel economy. My RX2 rally car (51mm Weber) used to come awful close to these figures in stage. I budgeted 1 L/km during competitive stages, and 20L/100km for transport, and usually got it pretty close to that mark. My mate's old Ser 4 RX7 rally car averaged nearly 1 L/km for an entire rally, including transport.

those Rotaries are damn good at converting fossil fuel into heat and noise :whistling:

Just for Harry:

One tank of fuel, primarily used around town, with a couple of very short stints on the freeway (Less then 5 mins each trip, about 6 trips, so at 100KM/H that's 50KM worth of freeway, but the main one I use is 80/90 ;) )

It took: 55.81L

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And I managed: 480.8KM

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So on those figures, average 11.6L/100KM

Or if you still want to claim that it's 5% over read, I would have done 457.9KM, so that still means 12.2L/100KM.

It's funny isn't it... My mainly around town figure is LOWER then the claimed combined figure, yet alone the "urban only" figure of 16.7L/100KM...

At the end of Feb I'm driving to Melbourne with 2 other mates + Luggage in the car, I'll do my pure highway fuel economy then for you and post it up, you'll just have to wait roughly 6 weeks.

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