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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're too big??? Please. I live amongst giant 2 ton trucks in an equestrian paradise. Some people even have horse trucks with the fronts of semi trucks, and regular families drive Excursions. And they are NOT environmentally friendly and spew black smoke out of smoke stacks on top. Get real![/quote]

Meh. I ride. And the previous owner of my Saab station wagon (since gone to Saab heaven) used it to tow their horse. You don't need Excursion bomb cars even in equestrian paradise, in fact that's embarrassing.[/quote]

I also used to ride, and trailer.

Had a aluminum 2-axle Equi single stall trailer with tack nook up front, for my a draft-cross gelding. He was maybe 1,100lbs

So trailer was ~2,800, 1100 of horse, and probably ~300-400 lbs of tack gear, feed, hay, water, misc stuff …. So figure ~4,500 lbs total.

That a single stall lightweight aluminum trailer, just about the lightest set up you can get for trailering a horse.

That’s wayyyyyyyyyy over the tow rating for a Saab. In fact it weighs about 1,000 lbs more than the car itself, which makes it crazy dangerous unstable.

You need a minimum of a half-ton pick up or full-size SUV (Tahoe, Suburban, Expedition, Wagoneer, Sequoia, ect) to tow even a single stall safely. You’d be insane to tow a horse trailer with a Saab wagon. And it’s irresponsible to risk the safety of your horse like that, too.

If this even happened at all and you’re not just some anti-SUV/truck troll. 
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