Re: towing
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Good quote from a car dealer I spoke to once about a Land Rover Discovery which, at the time, had a towing "capacity" of 4000kg.
He said that yes, it can tow 4000kg...but that was the maximum capacity. He commented that "Just because your vehicle can tow a certain maximum weight claimed in the advertising...usually done on a billiard-table-flat piece of test track at a careful slow speed...doesn't mean you should do that every day, or sometimes even at all..."
I remember these words when I see those massive Yank trucks which claim ridiculous towing "capacities" of several times the mass of the vehicle...and also TV spots where they show a vehicle "towing" an airliner on a runway...
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