What are you towing with your 6th Gen Ranger?

[Sammy]

Just finished a 4500 mile road trip to Texas towing our 17' (3000# wet) Casita trailer. Pic is outside of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Truck doesn't look the greatest wearing about 3000 miles of road grime. The Ranger pulled like a champ. Computer MPG of 19.1., hand calculated 18.5. That beats our previous tow vehicle (VW Touareg with 3.6lt V6) which averaged 15.9 MPG, hand calculated. The Ranger tows better and has more usable power though both engines are rated at 270hp.

Picking up my new Casita on Monday. Will be traveling back to South Central TN. Looking forward to seeing how my Lariat does with it.

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[superj]

Boy, you have no excuse for not going. Corpus Christi is a lot closer to Big Bend than central Virginia.We visited Terlingua which certainly had a long mining history.

I know. Its only like 10 or 12 hours from my house but i cant get my wife to go

 

[HotPepperLariat]

Picking up my new Casita on Monday. Will be traveling back to South Central TN. Looking forward to seeing how my Lariat does with it.

You'll be impressed in how well it does pulling a Casita. In some areas of Texas we hit 40mph headwinds and sidewinds. While I certainly don't like towing in that sort of weather, the truck was unfazed except to downshift to 8th gear (Tow mode normally locks out 10th, so usually cruise in 9th). FYI: we bought our Casita from the factory in 2005. It has been a phenomenal camper and so impressed with its quality. Also, definitely don't need a WDH.

 

[superj]

That is the kind of stuff i hear from all casita owners.

 

[Sammy]

You'll be impressed in how well it does pulling a Casita. In some areas of Texas we hit 40mph headwinds and sidewinds. While I certainly don't like towing in that sort of weather, the truck was unfazed except to downshift to 8th gear (Tow mode normally locks out 10th, so usually cruise in 9th). FYI: we bought our Casita from the factory in 2005. It has been a phenomenal camper and so impressed with its quality. Also, definitely don't need a WDH.

I did splurge on the Anderson weight distribution hitch. Pretty much checked all the options! I figured if I'm getting a new trailer I might as well go all in and get all the bells and whistles.

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