> Has anybody ever seen European car hitches? They are
> pretty common there, because people are less likely to
> have a big SUV for hauling stuff. They always seem to
> be of a style that is never used here: There is a
> single curved, tapered, forged arm that curves up and
> back from under the rear bumper, and it has the ball
> integral with it.
A lot of them are retractable; we've got a guy locally who retrofitted
the Euro hitch on his E39 M5 and tows a Beverly Hillbillies-style
trailer with it.
Since most of the tow vehicles in Europe are unit-structure, it also
looked to be common for the hitch mechanism on the trailer to have a
shock-absorbing function.
John.
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