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Oct 18, 2013Explorer II
White Beard wrote:
That's exactly the kind of vehicule I'm looking for.
Wish they made them & sold them here.
"They" did, except the Euro type RVs made in the U.S. got U.S. market features like full bathrooms, holding tanks, generators, air conditioners. We didn't buy many of them.
Main producer sticking their neck out to try to sell us Euro RVs was Winnebago, with the LeSharo on Renault platform evolving into Rialta on the VW T4 platform, made and sold here at least through 2004.
Winnebago also made a compact, front drive, more conventional C, sold as Vista and Itasca Sunstar. Also on the T4, also close to Euro size and weight limits, with features for U.S. like A/C, gensets, full bathrooms with holding tanks. That one was also made through 2004.
What killed them here, for a while, was not so much slow sales as loss of a platform, when VW stopped importing the T4. That had a lot to do with a punitive tariff on imports of commercial vehicles in a certain size range, and VW just wasn't selling enough T4s to make it worth while to set up manufacture inside NAFTA area, to get around the tariff. That's what it will take to get Ducato, Transit, Master here, as Toyota, Nissan, Daimler and Volvo have had to do to sell us vans, trucks, and motorcoaches.
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