Towing a car MPG

[xYachties]

How does towing a tow car on a A-FRAME effect your MPG.

 

[Geo]

About .75 to 1.5 MPG on my Autotrail
It added exactly 1 MPG
On my American RV 6.8.ltr petrol
You will get a few variations depending on right foot and driving style

 

[Augusta08]

The Augusta uses 4 mpg more on Fiat 3.0ltr 160 bhp towing a 480kg trailer with a 1000kg car on it.

No trailer I get 27mpg using Shell v-power this drops to 23mpg.

HTH Gerry

 

[Cheshirecat57]

Well, with no TOAD i used to do 70 on motorway and get 28 mpg

With a TOAD, limit is of course 60……so got a similar mpg

I suppose 60 without the TOAD would have been much better

 

[icantremember]

I have never checked or even considered the difference... life is too short to worry about such things!

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[DandG5515]

Drive 55 with toad, 60 without. 24 mpg

 

[Steve and Denise]

I find towing the car to be more economical!
If I fill the car up no matter how many miles we tow it the tank is still full when we arrive at our destination

 

[dunnah01]

Never understood why HGVs aren't daisy chained together on motorways to massively reduce the carbon footprint - somebody must be able to come up with a safe system somehow

 

[tiger800]

We had our little Ago adapted yesterday, really pleased can’t wait to get away and try it.

 

[Grummyb]

Never understood why HGVs aren't daisy chained together on motorways to massively reduce the carbon footprint - somebody must be able to come up with a safe system somehow

Its known as platooning and various clever people are considering doing trials but how do you get off a motorway junction if there are a bucket load of lorries all in the inside lane and ghats just the first obvious hurdle to get over

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[dunnah01]

Its known as platooning and various clever people are considering doing trials but how do you get off a motorway junction if there are a bucket load of lorries all in the inside lane and ghats just the first obvious hurdle to get over

put 'em in the outside lane or even blacktop the railways?

 

[Mr and Mrs O]

We had our little Ago adapted yesterday, really pleased can’t wait to get away and try it.

We have a a Pugeot 107 so basically the same car. Can I ask what was the cost of having the A frame fitted?
Thanks

 

[Otter Spotter]

put 'em in the outside lane or even blacktop the railways?

Why blacktop the railways, why not just put the containers straight onto rail trucks and have lorry’s pick them up at goods yards? Shorter lorry journeys and much less motorway travel .

 

[dunnah01]

Why blacktop the railways, why not just put the containers straight onto rail trucks and have lorry’s pick them up at goods yards? Shorter lorry journeys and much less motorway travel .

far less double handling of containers and much more delivery flexibility if the containers are effectively given an engine and told to tag onto the back of the nearest truck. Freight on the UK railways will never get it's fair share on WCML or ECML versus the big franchised passenger operators.

 

[Steve and Denise]

Never understood why HGVs aren't daisy chained together on motorways to massively reduce the carbon footprint - somebody must be able to come up with a safe system somehow

Did that not happen with canals? Yes!
But that was 150 years ago and no one was in a rush!
Imagine Amazon back then, yes sir that will be with you next month

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[62272]

Over 1000 miles the average was negligible, 1-2 mpg (27 mpg without to 25 mpg with)

 

[Spriddler]

far less double handling of containers and much more delivery flexibility if the containers are effectively given an engine and told to tag onto the back of the nearest truck.

They might as well as they often look as though they already are. It might keep them a decent distance apart too.

 

[xYachties]

Thank you all

 

[Augusta08]

Never understood why HGVs aren't daisy chained together on motorways to massively reduce the carbon footprint - somebody must be able to come up with a safe system somehow

Elon Musk has already done this with autominous driver mode in Tesla.

 

[dunnah01]

Elon Musk has already done this with autominous driver mode in Tesla.

Not sure it's such a good idea to trial it with joe public cr@p drivers though

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[tiger800]

We have a a Pugeot 107 so basically the same car. Can I ask what was the cost of having the A frame fitted?
Thanks

£1995.00