We rented a Nissan Murano out in Montana two weeks ago and it worked well enough for what we used it for, but I did not see a trailer hitch or any trailer hitch on most vehicles that I see out on the road today. Those big V-6's are putting out over 300 hp these days and my 5.4 F-150 is only rated at 330 hp. True enough I have never maxed out that Featherlite v-nose, but the truck sure doesn't seem to know that it is pulling something from what I can tell. My 3.8 V-6 Buick has a hitch too which is kind of rare, but it only pulls the 5x8' utility trailer.
I had a Frontier with a 260hp/280tq 4.0 v6 and now an F-150 with a 320hp/390tq 5.4 v8 and there is no comparing the two with equivalent loads behind them. Generally speaking, hp is pretty irrelevant for towing.
