Gas Mileage

I didn’t mean to push, just prod all of us. I agree with your decision not to move too quickly, I just wanted the discussion to continue so that possibilities such as the kayak loaded in a V might popup again or someone who shelled out the cash to try an air deflector on their car found a solution. Only through discussion will we ever hear these possibilities.

My overall goal for this thread was to see how others are doing relative to mpg and if we were all in the same boat, try to get Forest River to help find something to improve our mileage and their sales. I am sure if they are even discussing this they will have to evaluate if they find something it may help the mileage of people towing other brands of campers too. I do think, however, there is a competitive advantage for Forest River to help solve the problem. This forum and R.Pod Nation are a lot of folks who mostly have already purchased an R.Pod. There are also lots of folks on both forums who are trying to decide between the Pod, MPG, Scamp, KZ Sportsman Classic. If Forest River were to find or help find the solution to this problem, that new buyers and old owners of the Pod could benefit from, I am sure it would increase customer loyalty to their brand.

I never test towed the R.Pod before I bought. I’ll bet a very large percent of us drove off the dealers lot with a great deal of excitement about the great standard equipment, options and the feeling it is so light, it will be fairly easy on gas only to hit 50 to 55 and feel the gas pedal turn to mush and the mileage drop from 22 not towing to 11 mpg or so.