There is more to towing than the rating of your vehicle. That plays a small part in the total combination. The max tow rating or combined vehicle rating is the manufactures specs of what the vehicle can handle, drive line componets, suspension, and most important breaking. If you are going to...

Moving map GPS's are great. A lap top in a vehicle, specially subject to off road punishment could get expensive. I use a magellan meridian series GPS (Color and platinum models) with mapsend street maping and mapsend topo. The smaller unit fits easily in all my motor vehicles (on and off road)...

Most the people I know don't like to say diesel, certianly can't spell diesel, hate the smell of diesel and don't like the noise of a diesel. Me? Diesels are power more so than speed, more efficient, and extremely slippery when you spill a little bit. Don't care for the smell of raw diesel...

Don't drop your guard at all with the idea that it will never be banned... Here in the states SUV's are very common from little Kia's up to the big Ford Excursion.... And let me tell you the Excursion cruises easily at 90 MPH as it does 40. Fuel economy, well large fuel tank tells the story...