gmw photos wrote:
RobertRyan wrote:
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...... So people go to Off Road Caravans instead. Australia is not the US and Off Road RVing makes up a large part of activities . Many Off Road areas bigger than the whole State of Idaho. It is hard to get an idea if your are from the US or Europe
Which is a large part of why I have said for a long time, that "we have what we need" here in the USA market, ( and you, Robt, have what you need ) regarding trailers. Folks often come on these boards and lament the fact that we do not have long travel softly sprung independent suspension on our trailers. There is a reason for that. We don't need it ( mostly ). Most of our towing is done on relatively smooth paved roads at higher speeds. Long travel soft suspension is "not" what you want for our kind of towing.
You have to applaud Jayco Aus for giving fifth wheels a try. You can do market research, and focus groups and all the rest, but there ain't nothing like throwing a big handful of product into the real market to find out whether it will fly or not.
Try driving I-5 some day, and see if you revise your opinion. We may not need long-travel suspension, but =softer= suspensions wouldn't be a bad idea. I-8 was not real comfortable last time I towed to San Diego, and W of the AZ border it was worse. A MorRyde IS looks better'n better every time I tow...
Lyle
