New Podders deciding btwn tow vehicles

It's been said/noted before on fuel economy:

I to am in search of a tv. It will be my daily driver 1st so empty weight gas mileage and reliability are paramount to me. Luckily the field is flooded with combinations of these. These are the top contenders in my book. If I where strictly thinking towing I'd probably look a a full size 1/2 ton. Again there're many great options. 

31 deer, that's impressive!!

Go ask the service manager about the contents of the tow package.  He also will have access to service bulletins.

Now that I have had the chance to do a major tow of our EscaPOD, (South Jordan, Utah to Gilbert, Arizona) with the 2010 Nissan Frontier LE with 4wd, I can comment on how it tows. Overall, I am quite pleased. I don't think I had the hitch adjusted quite right, so I readjusted it in preparation for the next leg of our trip.

As I suspected, even though it has a larger engine than the one in our Escape (4L V6 vs. 2L turbocharged I4), it struggled more in the mountains. The Ecoboost is a marvelous feature as it maintained power in the mountains. I could tell that the naturally aspirated V6 lost power as we gained in altitude. At 6,000+ feet, there was a definite drop-off in power. Trying to maintain 60-65 mph on some of the climbs was not going to happen, even though the transmission downshifted into 2nd gear several times. In spite of this, I am still pleased with the Frontier. It is much less expensive to use 87 Octane regular instead of having to use premium. We are getting about 11 mpg. The Frontier we have is only rated 19 mpg highway, so the half is about right. We got as low as about 9 mph with the Escape under similar conditions.

I still would like to get a Diesel engine tow vehicle some day. I could have purchased an older F250 for about the same price from a private individual, but it had some problems, so we went with the Frontier from Carmax. So far, it has worked out okay. I think you will be okay with the 2015 Frontier.

One excellent thing is that you can get the wiring harness to plug in a brake controller. The Bargman connector is there and all it takes is a short wiring harness to plug the connector into the pre-wired connector above the gas pedal under the dash. It only took a few minutes to get the Hopkins InSIGHT controller installed instead of the hours it took with the Escape. My wife likes the seating in the Frontier. She says it is better than that of the Escape. She likes sitting up a bit higher.