Nissan Frontier as TV

Some (at the recent TC rally) had asked about towing our 190 with our Nissan Frontier.

That truck is my daily driver for work, and I typically put about 2k miles on it each month driving to/from insurance claim inspections. That usually includes at least one ladder on the rack, and usually two. Add that to the body and suspension lifts, as well as slightly oversized tires, and it's not an aerodynamically efficient vehicle.

And I spend some time doing paperwork in the cab with the truck idling and AC running.

Over the last couple of months, I've averaged 15.4mpg.

We tow using a Fastway e2 WDH with sway bars rated for 6k# and 600# tongue weight, with a 4" drop shank due to the lift on the truck. We 'feel' passing trucks but it's not scary. We do occasionally get a bit of a pucker moment with gusting crosswinds, but pretty rarely and it recovers right away. I tend to run 63-65mph with cruise engaged and overdrive enabled as conditions allow. We usually outpull the big rigs on long grades.

During our trip to TC and back we logged just over 1640 miles. Other than trips to Sleeping Bear and Charlevoix/Petoskey, it was all with the R-Pod in tow. Excluding fill-ups for those excursions, we got about 12.7mpg.