Smallest Car that can tow?

[Andrew Gibbens]

I know I repost this image every year or so, and apologise to those who remember it, but I do like it!

The Weferlinger 200 trailer is seriously small and light (660lb loaded) but the Bond towing it has a single cylinder 200cc two-stroke motor with all of 10hp. I presume the bicycle was carried so that it could be hooked up as a 'double header' to get the rig over hills. As the Bond had poor cable brakes, I have no idea how it went downhill - well, apart from quickly.

[Fallon]

Originally Posted by mcbrew

Lol! I was having trouble picturing that trailer by your description. Now I see the typo: should have been "4 feet tall," not "4 feet taller [than the Smart]."

That would have been quite a trailer!

I could have sworn the one I saw had a taller trailer than the one in the picture. Could have just been surprise though. It's a bit taller than 4 feet total, about 6' or something I'd wager, average person height ish.

[floyd]

Here's a Trabby and matching trailer combo in Bruce Weiner's MicroCar museum...
Also a much bigger car with it's trailer(somewhere in Canada?)...

[Brian B-P]

Originally Posted by floyd

Also a much bigger car with it's trailer(somewhere in Canada?)...

Well, it seems to be a Canadian car, anyway... apparently an early Toyota Yaris coupe or sedan with an Ontario license plate. Pretty good in the "smallest car" theme, as it was the smallest Toyota available here at the time. Now a Scion iQ would beat that, but I haven't seen one towing.

[FTTRV]

I can tow my 21ft Bigfoot with my Kubota BX2200 diesel powered Tractor. Top speed is 15 mph but I can mow lawns along the way to pay for fuel.

[mmeyer]

Originally Posted by FTTRV

I can tow my 21ft Bigfoot with my Kubota BX2200 diesel powered Tractor. Top speed is 15 mph but I can mow lawns along the way to pay for fuel.

Yep good little tractors, lot of muscle in a small package

[mcbrew]

Originally Posted by Brian B-P

Well, it seems to be a Canadian car, anyway... apparently an early Toyota Yaris coupe or sedan with an Ontario license plate. Pretty good in the "smallest car" theme, as it was the smallest Toyota available here at the time. Now a Scion iQ would beat that, but I haven't seen one towing.

Yep... They were sold in the US as the Toyota Echo. In later generations, they deemed us worthy of the "foreign sounding" Yaris nameplate.

I used to tow my Scamp with a Scion xD, which shares a lot of its underpinnings with the Yaris. It has the slightly larger 1.8 liter engine, though.

[Brian B-P]

Originally Posted by mcbrew

Yep... They were sold in the US as the Toyota Echo. In later generations, they deemed us worthy of the "foreign sounding" Yaris nameplate.

Sorry, the name history was about the same in Canada (with some messing around regarding the hatchback), so the car in the photo would have an "Echo" badge on it just as it would in the U.S.... I had the right car, wrong vintage of name!

[Frederick L. Simson]

The question of Biodiesel that was here has been moved. It is now in a Thread of its own:
http://www.fiberglassrv.com/forums/f...use-61083.html

We now return to the original topic.