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Topic: Pennine Fiesta Folding Camper

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bill43

15/5/2012 at 6:59pm
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Hi i have a Pennine Fiesta Folding Camper just like to know what small car is good at towing a Pennine Fiesta Folding Camper i just want to down size my car due to kids are grow up and do their own things now, many thanks

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Hi, you'd probably get away with something Golf sized. As long the loaded FC weighs about 85% of the cars kerb weight or less you will be ok.

Might be worth posting your question in the tow car or folding camper/trailer tent section.

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You need to check the weights. We had one a few years ago and the max weight of the Pennine was 750kgs. If that's the case a wide range of cars will be fine. Thinking back to ours I don't think we would have wanted to tow it with anything smaller than a Golf / Focus sized car whatever the kerb weight / power issues.

Clearly you want a car with a kerb weight of 900 kgs which will tow at least 750kgs

bill43

15/5/2012 at 9:30pm
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ok thanks for that

kpnuts81

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I towed one with a Renault scenic 1800cc petrol it was fine but it was very sluggish on steep hills otherwise it was fine, I now tow a pennine pullman with the same car but looking to maybe change the car at some point as I do not think its powerful enough on the hills also the towbar weight is only 65kg and kerbweight is only 1280kg

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andyrbruce

16/5/2012 at 10:55am
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We had a Pennine Fiesta and towed it with a 1.6 Automatic Renault Scenic.

Did tow OK but was difficult on some hills (and really embarrassing on one where we crawled up at about 10 mph in 1st!).

With my 2.0 Diesel Skoda Octavia Estate I did not even know it was there!

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We have a VW 1.4 Polo. We towed the Fiesta that we had before and now the Countryman with the greatest of ease.We have no problems going uphill just have to use your gears properly like with any other car.Hope this helps.Cheers.Alex

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We used to tow our Fiesta with a 1.4 tdci Fiesta, never had any problems towing it.
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