A very different take on a Class C
Notice it is a Cabover Japanese MDT not available in the US, neither is the toad Pickup Truck. Body is different. Pickup Truck has a 4.5litre V8 Diesel.
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Notice it is a Cabover Japanese MDT not available in the US, neither is the toad Pickup Truck. Body is different. Pickup Truck has a 4.5litre V8 Diesel.
- Wow I guess I am not the only one out there will custom a built stacker for our toys.
American version
Australian version j-d wrote:
I've long thought that the smaller diesel cabover MDT's would make a great chassis for a Class C with some capacity, decent fuel mileage, reliability, and ease of driving.
I've thought though, that it'd be more of a Truck Camper, since my understanding was a "motor-home" had to have the cockpit accessible from the living quarters.
Is that what everybody still thinks? I remember cars called "Hardtop Convertible" where the top didn't fold, come off, or whatever. But no Center Post, no Window Frames. Then GM re-defined it. OK to have a center post and windows, just frame-less door windows.
Anyhow, I would give up a cut-away cab-chassis to keep a more solid small motor-home.
And, Robert, I like the vehicles and RV's you have Down There. The pickup you just pictured bears that out. Function over Form. Here in USA, it's all about Form...
It is not a small diesel. 8.8 litre or a 9.8litre. Par for the course for Japanese MDT's herepnichols wrote:
According to some of Robert's photos in various threads plenty of customers in Australia are nowadays going for "form" over "function", too.
Australia still has a huge land mass as compared to it's relatively low population ... like the U.S. used to have many decades ago. I prefer the ratio that Australia still has and if I RV'd there I'd take advantage of it by using a near expedition-grade RV to explore all over the place in the interior as much as legally possible. Of course one has to be a remote desert lover to appreciate that kind of RV'ing.
The documentary "From Alice to Ocean" clearly showed (to me) the beauty and allure of the pristine Australian Outback ... what an RV'ing dream place. There are only a few places left in the U.S. where this experience can be somewhat duplicated in an RV. We've been to one place and camped there in our Class C that maybe came close ... a spot in the Oregon Outback.
Australia has Alpine, considerable subTropical/tropical climate and the biggest Mediterranean Climate in the World in Western Australia.timmac wrote:
Wow I guess I am not the only one out there will custom a built stacker for our toys.
American version
Australian version
Very common here, stackers
- Here is the Toad towing
The Wild West Coast of Tasmania
Northen Queensland
RobertRyan wrote:
Notice it is a Cabover Japanese MDT not available in the US, neither is the toad Pickup Truck. Body is different. Pickup Truck has a 4.5litre V8 Diesel.
Whoever said you can't take it with you...never saw this rig. ;)RobertRyan wrote:
j-d wrote:
I've long thought that the smaller diesel cabover MDT's would make a great chassis for a Class C with some capacity, decent fuel mileage, reliability, and ease of driving.
I've thought though, that it'd be more of a Truck Camper, since my understanding was a "motor-home" had to have the cockpit accessible from the living quarters.
Is that what everybody still thinks? I remember cars called "Hardtop Convertible" where the top didn't fold, come off, or whatever. But no Center Post, no Window Frames. Then GM re-defined it. OK to have a center post and windows, just frame-less door windows.
Anyhow, I would give up a cut-away cab-chassis to keep a more solid small motor-home.
And, Robert, I like the vehicles and RV's you have Down There. The pickup you just pictured bears that out. Function over Form. Here in USA, it's all about Form...
It is not a small diesel. 8.8 litre or a 9.8litre. Par for the course for Japanese MDT's here
RobertRyan wrote:
RobertRyan wrote:
j-d wrote:
I've long thought that the smaller diesel cabover MDT's would make a great chassis for a Class C with some capacity, decent fuel mileage, reliability, and ease of driving.
I've thought though, that it'd be more of a Truck Camper, since my understanding was a "motor-home" had to have the cockpit accessible from the living quarters.
Is that what everybody still thinks? I remember cars called "Hardtop Convertible" where the top didn't fold, come off, or whatever. But no Center Post, no Window Frames. Then GM re-defined it. OK to have a center post and windows, just frame-less door windows.
Anyhow, I would give up a cut-away cab-chassis to keep a more solid small motor-home.
And, Robert, I like the vehicles and RV's you have Down There. The pickup you just pictured bears that out. Function over Form. Here in USA, it's all about Form...
It is not a small diesel. 8.8 litre or a 9.8litre. Par for the course for Japanese MDT's here
The vehicle shown in this photo and with right hand drive has been pulling a test trailer loaded with weights around Southern California for over a year now. It has plates from Michigan on it and a DOT code associated as a manufacturer. Also seen a bob tail type box truck with the same markings. I see it so frequently that my wifey even noticed it. Sometimes there is a passenger on a laptop, maybe monitoring performance. Anyone have any ideas on that. I saw him as far North as I-5 pulling the grapevine out of Bakersfield. They have vinyl covers as to hide the identity of the maker.- Could be any of the Japanese manufacturers: Hino, Isuzu; Mitsubishi or UD ( owned by Volvo) They have similar trucks. Japanese HDT's have roughly 560hp limit on the engines. They are built like Tanks
- I understand what you said about the MDT's like the one under the "Class C" pictured at the top of this thread.
What I was trying to express, was my thought that the "entry level" MDT's we see making deliveries, probably equivalent to F550 but diesel cabovers, would make a nice Class C. More than a Sprinter, less than a Super C.
