Jayco, Arctic Fox, Grand Design
Ugh... Why oh Why is making a choice so hard. Wife and I went looking today.... Jayco seem nice but local dealer doesn't have a lot of inventory but it seems to be missing options I think I wa...
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Arctic Fox RV's are popular where they are made which is in the NW USA and you may note that the posts on about all the forums touting Arctic Fox and Northwood RV's are people mainly from the NW areas. Highly unpopular and seldom seen in the rest of the USA and Canada. Very few dealers in the rest of the country will handle them as those who do have reported them to be very slow sellers and not competitive in the marketplace with other like brands. Yes, we have talked to two dealers selling Arctic Fox in the eastern half of the USA and both have stated this. Mainly because their RV's and very outdated in designs, style, and interiors and higher priced than their competition in like models and do no better in hot or cold ambients as reported to their dealers by the few owners who had purchased them east of the Mississippi. Wild touting doesn't make any product any better than it really is and if they were better, they'd sell more but they don't and haven't!
Inventory costs money and stocking Artic Fox's is expensive and hard to sell in most of the country. Northwood has a couple dozen dealers while Jayco for instance has over 300 and they are all over the country. No driving hundreds or thousands of miles if you had a serious problem and Jayco gives a 2 full year hitch to rear bumper total waranty.
As for Jayco using Astro Foil bubble wrap along with fiberglass and foam for very effective insulation R-values, radiant reflective, and a very fine moisture barrier, the poster who made such an wrong claim about it not being excellent and very effective R-value needs to do some research and actually learn something. Astro Foil is the insulation that was developed specifically for NASA and is what's used in the NASA space shuttles and very high altitude military etc jets. It sure does keep the humans aboard from being cooked inside when the front side of the shuttle turns bright red from the air friction heat during re-entry and being frozen to death in the way below zero F (like -30F to -60F+) when flying at 40,000-100,000 ft up in the very bitter cold atmosphere. Guess the un-informed poster doesn't even have a clue as to what Astro Foil really is and what is does but NASA does! It's not the cheap knock off named Reflectix that some RV manufacturer's use!
Yes, the Jayco Pinnacle is a high level RV and is certainly a step above an Arctic Fox and that's a no brainer.
Inventory costs money and stocking Artic Fox's is expensive and hard to sell in most of the country. Northwood has a couple dozen dealers while Jayco for instance has over 300 and they are all over the country. No driving hundreds or thousands of miles if you had a serious problem and Jayco gives a 2 full year hitch to rear bumper total waranty.
As for Jayco using Astro Foil bubble wrap along with fiberglass and foam for very effective insulation R-values, radiant reflective, and a very fine moisture barrier, the poster who made such an wrong claim about it not being excellent and very effective R-value needs to do some research and actually learn something. Astro Foil is the insulation that was developed specifically for NASA and is what's used in the NASA space shuttles and very high altitude military etc jets. It sure does keep the humans aboard from being cooked inside when the front side of the shuttle turns bright red from the air friction heat during re-entry and being frozen to death in the way below zero F (like -30F to -60F+) when flying at 40,000-100,000 ft up in the very bitter cold atmosphere. Guess the un-informed poster doesn't even have a clue as to what Astro Foil really is and what is does but NASA does! It's not the cheap knock off named Reflectix that some RV manufacturer's use!
Yes, the Jayco Pinnacle is a high level RV and is certainly a step above an Arctic Fox and that's a no brainer.
