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The camping trailers I see here in NA are absolutely fucking huge and perhaps quite a bit heavier built? I have no problem whatsoever towing a small European camper trailer with my wife's Mazda 2 (which has a hitch as opposed to my electric car which can't tow shit).
So you buy a stupidly large car to tow a stupidly large camper. I see.
Well, I don't. I'm just a tourist here in the US and Canada. You could probably criticize us for owning two cars in the Netherlands, but we're trimming it down to one company car (with private use included) as soon as we can.
We only tow my wife's work trailer and camper trailer (converted to coffee stand). But we don't use a stupidly large car for that.
I did not mean you, I was just expressing the logic of the people doing that.
Small European campers? Have you ever seen those Tabbert battleships-on-wheels? I was there when my then boss delivered a Princess 1050, a 34ft twin axle caravan. That's not exactly small. And he also had no truck. And still towed it without issues through the mountains.