Hmm, if you'd said that before the poor old thing got rear ended by that damnable rusty Clio, I'd have lol'd and said something about not wanting to drill big holes in the car's virgin spare wheel tray to take the towbar bracket. Now, however, bumper replaced with a split new one straight from Toyota at a cost that was more than the coke-fuelled student scummer got for totalling his own car in the attempt to scratch mine
, I think that a towbar would be an
excellent idea as it would protect my nice shiny bumper from further attempts by small, unroadworthy French cars to hurt my beloved 25 year old Japanese device.
So, on that basis, it would be a shame to fit a towbar and not use it, but these Airstreams are somewhat nose heavy. Now, that doesn't matter when they're being towed by an American vee-hick-ull that can pull several times its own weight, but I can't help feeling that adding that ridiculous nose weight to the Corolla's already rather lengthy rear overhang would introduce me to a whole new handling concept:
Lift-off understeer 
, where the weight of the van would seesaw the front wheels right off the road surface so thanks, but no thanks.
I shall however be putting a classic Anusfold (sp
) caravan on the road at some time and that's not only perfectly balanced, it's a GRP monocoque and its roof folds (hence the name), which makes it appear to the onlooker that it's just a trailer, so I wouldn't get laughed at when I go to club meets with the rig.
indeed. I love that, but I had to laugh at the way that the car's vendor has responded to a feedback comment that makes no real sense:
. Leave the Metros/Rover 11*s for those of us who like a little sophistication in their modern everyday classics and do not, for the love of the flying spaghetti monster - Jah Pastafari - ever, under any circumstances, lower Hydrasag suspension by simply reducing the fluid pressure. This will, probably sooner rather than later, cause a catastrophic evacuation of the sort that brings us right back round to Rentokil. Oh, and it'll kill off the displacers by overstretching their diaphragms. It's just a shame that hydro suspension fluid, being near as dammit a glycol/water mix with bright green dye in it, doesn't burst into flames when it's attacked by someone who fiddles with the valves because they were bored that day and the job centre was closed for fumigation.