Towing with new model Ford Kuga

easygoing
easygoing Forum Participant Posts: 21
edited April 28 in Towcars & Towing #1

Hi anyone towing with the new model Ford Kuga  petrol. 2022 onwards, what are your thoughts on it ? 

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  • joanie
    joanie Forum Participant Posts: 135
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    edited April 28 #2

    We still have our kuga diesel, it is a great tow car and we shall probably keep it now untill we stop towing, another couple of years, hopefully.  We do find the Kuga is a bit big for some car parks , but it suits us for now. 

    We haven't had a petrol car for years so I can't comment on your new car, but I hope you get a lot of pleasure out of it.  Let us know your mpg when you are towing, with the diesel we get about 30mpg, that a 2l  Kuga towing  15cwt. caravan.

  • eribaMotters
    eribaMotters Club Member Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭✭
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    edited April 28 #3

    Joanie, is that a typo. Do you mean 15cwt, which is about 680kg, or 1500kg?

     

    Colin

  • Oscarmax
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    edited April 28 #4

    Which engine 1.5 T or 2.5 FHEV

  • easygoing
    easygoing Forum Participant Posts: 21
    edited April 29 #5

    2.5 fhev

  • Oscarmax
    Oscarmax Club Member Posts: 257 ✭✭✭
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    edited April 29 #6

    Practical caravans have carried out a full towing reviews, also Ford Kuga owners, several pleased Kuga FHEV owners.

  • joanie
    joanie Forum Participant Posts: 135
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    edited April 30 #7

    you get the prize colin  , I do tend to use the old measurements  sometimes, gets me into a lot of trouble. The van is a bailey pheonix 640. It has been upgraded  in weight to just under the 1500kg

  • Amesford
    Amesford Forum Participant Posts: 685
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    edited April 30 #8

    We are on our second Kuga the first one was a mild hybrid diesel our present one is a PHEV 2022 2.5 ltr  which tows our 1381kgs with no problems flying up Birdlip and telegraph hills, on both cars we went for the factory fitted tow bar just press the button and your ready to hook up   

  • Oscarmax
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    edited April 30 #9

    Telegraph Hill that a real killer, our 2020 Mitsubishi Outlander 2.4 PHEV towing our 1500kg caravan we still had about 5 miles EV range left is disappeared within a few minutes,I thought the ICE was going to pop out of the bonnet, going down the other side we gained 2 miles EV.

  • Amesford
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    edited April 30 #10

    The last time we went up Birdlip hill we got stuck behind a split screen Morris minor doing about 15/20 MPH, finally there was a break in the traffic in the outside lane and we got past him he gave us a wave as we passed him by. At the top of Birdlip there used to be the apply named pub the "Air balloon"   

  • Oscarmax
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    edited April 30 #11

    Its a few years since we've towed up Birdlip Hill, we now use the M6 Toll Road.

  • tigersmiths
    tigersmiths Forum Participant Posts: 5
    edited June 10 #12

    We have a Ford Kuga FHEV 2.5L 2023 ST Line X max towing weight 1600kg

    It towed our 1300kg Swift Challenger competently without any trouble on two trips last year, mpg whilst towing was around 30mpg - exceptional for a petrol hybrid!

    We've swapped our Swift for a 1500kg Coachman Pastiche with a short weekend run 3/4 loaded, no problems.

    It will be tested fully in a couple of weeks when we go up to Melrose from Peterborough and back via Hawes.....

  • Oscarmax
    Oscarmax Club Member Posts: 257 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 10 #13

    30+ mpg seem about the norm for these modern PHEV, even using 10 petrol. If you drop your towing speed down to 55mph you may see 34mph, hybrids have a sweet spot.

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