New Carriage????

Carriage started as an idea in a pole barn in the late 1960s and evolved into a national leader in the luxury fifth-wheel market. At its peak, Carriage employed over 275 workers before halting production in late 2011 due to financial difficulties.

Noticed that too. Seems strange it was only a REDWOOD model for such a short time.

As far as I know they were having issues bringing it to production and have put it on indefinate hold.

Maybe they can't afford the cost, of all the warrenty repairs that might be needed on another line.

Lillyputz

What I found on the CrossRoads RV forum

The theory of Thor bringing back and manufacturing the Carriage can be laid to rest. It ain't going to happen. Thor bought the name "only". A bunch of the old employs bought the rest, and they are now manufacturing their own new unit. Called "Lifestyle"

http://www.lifestylelrv.com/

Not exactly, they can bring Carriage back but it will have to be a new company to do it such as Redwood/Crossroads. It will have to be all new floor plans and pretty much everything else so as to not copy the old Carriage which is now Lifestyle. I think the project manager for the Carriage rebirth is on the hot seat now since Emahiser is gone. We shall see how things play out. They removed Carriage from the Redwood web site and added the Rushmore line that was made under Crossroads. That line has been plagued with quality issues for a while now. Who knows what they are up to.

From what I have seen and heard about the Lifestyle it looks as good as the old Carriage units.......

I guess this one may be put to bed for a while now. I heard Tom Montague was dismissed from Redwood/Crossroads yesterday and he was heading up the new Carriage project. Many changes going on there right now.

Hunter11 wrote:
I guess this one may be put to bed for a while now. I heard Tom Montague was dismissed from Redwood/Crossroads yesterday and he was heading up the new Carriage project. Many changes going on there right now.

With all of the quality and complain issues, No wounder.

Lillyputz

Crossroads has no quality control. NONE. I have two customers in the same campground that had to return their units to the factory for new replacements, they were made the same month