There are some excellent Ford tow cars, the Mondeo for example. However, as every day cars I personally think that they are often grossly underrated. This probably stems from the kudos in the company/golf club car park, and to a large extent the press.
My son has a 16-plate Mondeo estate 240ps petrol as his company car. I have the privilege of driving it on occasions, and it is such a lovely car to either drive or ride in. I recently used a Range Rover Velar for a weekend, which was nice (but should be at £70k!!), and the day after drove the Mondeo, and couldn’t help thinking what a lovely car this is, and for a fraction of the price. A colleague of his has an Audi A4, which cost more, but doesn’t have anywhere near the number of toys. Problems on the Mondeo so far (30,000 miles), nil. Audi, consistent issues with the brakes squealing, and a wheel bearing failure already. Like TonyH1’s Edge though, the Mondeo could do with the LED headlights.
I have towed our caravan with the Mondeo too (empty), and it really is very good.
I digress............
The Edge that we towed with was a lightweight in the heavyweight class, so it didn’t come as a surprise that it wasn’t a class winner as there are some exceptional cars in that class usually. But, it certainly didn’t disgrace itself. Indeed, our colleague from Alko was very keen to see how it performed as he’d just bought one. He wasn’t disappointed.
Again, the Discovery Sport is the better tow car (general consensus and backed up with data from Al-Ko), but as day to day cars there’s probably nothing to choose between them. The Edge will undoubtedly be the cheaper for servicing though as I’m sure that LR think of a number, double it, and then add a 0 at the end - whether it’s the initial price, servicing or parts! I know, I’m skint as a result!