I drove much worse. Besides my bicycle for 6 months, I limped around in a wrecked 1983 escort that only had 3 working gears and leaked water inside. It wreaked. But better than being rained on in ATL while living off-campus, so I drove it happily and thanked my dad!
Those are good thoughts. I’d get a long receiver hitch, but would then be relying on whatever this partial gate opening option is. The Lightning was tall enough that it was never a problem. Same with F150’s. I don’t remember on my Ridgeline, Frontier or Hardbody.
I was following a Jeep this afternoon with spare covered. Seems trivial to replace the Slate outside carrier with something solid if you didn’t want an AT spare:
https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-RAV4-1995-2012-Plastic-Textured/dp/B004RJI2AU
Like this should be easy to find something to fit a...