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I'm back to my spreadsheets again and just wondering if there's any cars I've not thought of :-) 

The MTPLM of our brand-new-to-us caravan is 1500kg and my shortlist of suitable cars around 5-ish years old currently contains the Santa Fe, SMax 2.2 Titanium, Kia Sorento 2.5, Nissan XTrail 2.0 TDCI, the VW Tuareg and the VW Sharan.  Landrovers should be on there but aren't as I view them as too expensive to run, and I could probably put the Vauxhall Antara on there but haven't - for no good reason other than a completely unreasonable mistrust of Vauxhalls!  I'm leaning towards the S-Max but what else have I missed ...?

Technically our old Audi is OK to pull it very lightly laden, but it's making the poor old car work far too hard so we need to shift fast to get a replacement.  All thoughts welcome :-)

My vans 1500kg & i used a S Max 2ltr 140, was a brilliant towcar. now use Mondeo 2ltr again brilliant towcar and heavier than you think

Bessie 

Thanks for all your suggestions.  I'm surprised at the Mondeo - I keep getting it at 94% kerbweight on the CC website, no matter how many variations I check? 

The CRV comes out at 90%, so will stick it on the spreadsheet.  Off to check the rest ..

2.0TD 148bhp Ford Smax tITANIUM

2 Adults,2 Kids Bikes,First Tow Car,cant Fault it,Absolutely Brilliant.

Cheers

Stu

Thanky ou all again - I think I'm swinging between the Santa Fe and the CRV. I suspect the CRV may win out, simply because there's so many more of them and it's quite hard to find a Santa Fe without very high mileage (and because I think the service/running costs will be lower in the CRV?). 

By the sounds of things, both will do the job perfectly adequately though!!