The April edition of the Practical Caravan magazine has added a new feature on the end of the test which suggests "perfect matches" for the featured vans.
I have a concern about this as the author has clearly not taken into account the noseweight capacity of some of the cars featured. These vehicles are being billed as "Perfect Matches" yet if one looks at noseweight capacity of several of the vehicles they are certainly less than optimal. All the caravans featured would have 7% values (the suggested optimum noseweight value) well in excess of 100kg and several of the cars clearly could not match that by some margin. You only need to read the article in the current edition of the Caravan Club magazine to see the pitfalls of not having sufficient noseweight capacity.
I accept that we all have to make compromises when selecting tow vehicles, but for such a magazine to say these vehicles are perfect when they so obviously don't meet perfection could be misleading to some. I also concede that the noseweight limit of the caravans is likely to be limited to 100kgs due to the hitch itself; the featured BMW, nevertheless, doesn't even get close to that figure as its noseweight capacity is limited to 75kg.
I have a concern about this as the author has clearly not taken into account the noseweight capacity of some of the cars featured. These vehicles are being billed as "Perfect Matches" yet if one looks at noseweight capacity of several of the vehicles they are certainly less than optimal. All the caravans featured would have 7% values (the suggested optimum noseweight value) well in excess of 100kg and several of the cars clearly could not match that by some margin. You only need to read the article in the current edition of the Caravan Club magazine to see the pitfalls of not having sufficient noseweight capacity.
I accept that we all have to make compromises when selecting tow vehicles, but for such a magazine to say these vehicles are perfect when they so obviously don't meet perfection could be misleading to some. I also concede that the noseweight limit of the caravans is likely to be limited to 100kgs due to the hitch itself; the featured BMW, nevertheless, doesn't even get close to that figure as its noseweight capacity is limited to 75kg.
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