Need recommendations for a Tow vehicle.

[Martinjmpr]

If I ever get a new truck I will be getting a V8 again. Ecoboost is great and all but as soon as you add any weight with camping gear, or toolbox, or new tires the extra gas mileage is gone and you might as well just have the V8 at that point. That's my two cents.

That's pretty much why we went with the Suburban. My thought was, "If I'm going to get 11 - 12 mpg anyway, I might as well be comfortable."

Driving the Suburban is like piloting my living room couch down the freeway. (my sister and brother-in-law borrowed it last weekend and they said it was more like driving their WHOLE LIVING ROOM down the road. )

I was toying with maybe the shorter Tahoe (since it's just the wife and me, kids are all grown) but when I looked at the numbers I realized that the Tahoe and the Burb get just about the same MPG but the 'Burb is 2' longer and has 5 more gallons in the tank. Also having a 14" longer wheelbase it tows better on the freeway.

No, it's not fun to park in a big city (though I parked in downtown Seattle in the middle of rush hour last year!) but for everything else it's been perfect.

[ACE2GOOD]

That's pretty much why we went with the Suburban. My thought was, "If I'm going to get 11 - 12 mpg anyway, I might as well be comfortable."

Driving the Suburban is like piloting my living room couch down the freeway. (my sister and brother-in-law borrowed it last weekend and they said it was more like driving their WHOLE LIVING ROOM down the road. )

I was toying with maybe the shorter Tahoe (since it's just the wife and me, kids are all grown) but when I looked at the numbers I realized that the Tahoe and the Burb get just about the same MPG but the 'Burb is 2' longer and has 5 more gallons in the tank. Also having a 14" longer wheelbase it tows better on the freeway.

No, it's not fun to park in a big city (though I parked in downtown Seattle in the middle of rush hour last year!) but for everything else it's been perfect.

I got a 2013 when the Ecoboosts were just getting popular and supposedly mpg was better in the 2013's but wish we would have waited to see more reviews and not buying at first release to see it was still crap mpg when towing. My Uncle had one of the first ones I think when ecoboost first started coming out and he got worse mpg then me when towing so maybe the 2013 is a little better. But oh well, it's almost paid off and I'm going to drive it till it dies!