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FIVE OF THE BEST... Estates for towing

New car sales have come to be dominated by SUVs. Choose rationally, however, and you can make a good case for the estate car being just as good to tow with, perhaps better.

As a rule, an estate will have a lower centre of gravity than an SUV, and you can expect more luggage space and a lower boot floor.

Just as choosing an SUV doesn’t necessarily mean that the car will be four-wheel drive, so choosing an estate doesn’t mean doing without it. Plenty of estate cars have four-wheel-drive versions. So if luggage space sits close to the top of your list of touring priorities, these are five of the very best estate cars to tow with.

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