[prydey]

It's a bit more work but have you thought about getting something older (and therefore lighter) and then renovating the inside to make it modern and how you want it.

Make sure you check out the max ball load rating, and rear axle rating on your XV too, not just the max tow capacity. Not sure about how the cvt will cope but the engineers who built the car obviously deemed it to be ok.

My last trip I put my swan over a weighbridge. I had very little food on board and empty water tank and just clothing and bedding in the van, and it was just shy of 1400kg, to give you an idea. Tare weight is plated at just over a tonne with 97kg ball weight, so even these wind up type campers can start to weigh a reasonable amount.