Some of us have enough money where buying a car that just works, with a factory warranty is worth it. I’m to busy wrenching on my classic Benz or spending time at the lake with my family to be swapping motors in late model cars.

You’re leaving money on the table if you’re FCA. I’ll bet you lunch there will be other Hellcat powered cars/trucks in the next development cycle.

Sorry but the Abarth is not that fast. The brakes are also woeful.

I don’t know where you live but LEO does not give a damn so long as stuff is not falling off your trailer or your car is dragging bumper down the highway. Insurance does not care either, I’ve had guys in the same car club crash because of a poorly loaded trailer and the insurance just writes a check like anything else.

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Your article is great but you’re missing the point. If you tow like you’re in Europe you’ll be just fine in the US. Go slower obviously and make sure your tire pressures and tongue weights are correct. You car won’t know your west of the Atlantic I promise.

I don’t know. I called them and they said I can only tow if I have a commercial account and will rent a minimum of 60 times a year. I’d need a truck to tow many 10 times a year max.

That sounds like a fun place to live...

It’s just expensive. A pickup is $20 a day plus 60 cents a mile. For me to get from my house to the race track and back that’s about 300 miles round trip. That’s a $200 day just in transport costs plus fuel. To rent a normal pick up from Enterprise is $70 a day.

You can’t rent anything but a u haul to tow with. Home depot won’t let you tow with their trucks and all the normal rental companies want a commercial account with a minimum number of rentals. Do you know a company that will let you rent a truck to tow?

The youth have no reason to want to afford that. I’m spending my 60k in fun money on a 4C, for the family I’d get a crossover or a wagon, not a 90k bruiser.

Pfft, I had the Euro OEM hitch for my Mk4 Golf, it’s super easy to install a hitch and they have a multitude of no cut wiring harness options. My Fiesta 1 liter to not list a tow rating so I just looked up the euro specification. They’re the exact same car. I’m not trying to haul thousands of pounds across mountains…

I store mine up on its tail behind my garage. The thing is maybe 200 lbs, it’s easy to move around the yard.

That’s what I do with my Fiesta 1 liter. I have the exact same trailer, I stick it behind my garage sitting on the flip down gate. I don’t even know it’s there unless I need it.

I tell people they don’t need a truck, they need a small trailer behind their economy car. People here on Jalopnik jump down my throat.

No way I’d buy this over a F-150 with the 2.7 EB, they come with very similar pricing.

I’m going to still trust the powertrain engineers who have run hundreds of hours of testing including particle count and size.

Also it looks like that wood is there as a reinforcing member taking some/most of the load off the tailgate itself.

A spec Fiesta 1 liter series would be 10x better. Push modern technology and the cars are only about $5,000 more. In racer money that’s minor.

They’re also much better handling and more powerful.

How much weight is on that tailgate?

I had to talk to a few dealers to get one to play but that’s fine. I wasted much less time than actually going to a dealer. I was buying my Fiesta 1 liter out of state anyway, there were only a 70 or so hatchbacks for sale at the time. I made sure I got a formal pricing sheet each time we went back and forth on…