Claas A/ Class C

rgatijnet1 wrote:

Desert Captain wrote:

rgatijnet1 wrote:

Kayteg1 wrote:
I think the biggest difference is crash safety.
ClassC has a cabin that has crash and roll-over ratings.
ClassA none.
ClassA gives you more cabin comfort and option to use front seats while "camping".

Exactly how many Class C cabins have been tested in a head on collision with several tons of cabinets, furniture, and appliances attempting to crush you from behind? :B

As bad as this crash looks it was probably survivable with the air bags {not found on most A's}, deploying. Look at the damage closely and imagine that coach was a Class A... two dead for sure. In an A you are sitting atop the front wheels with no engine in front {look at the picture again noting where those Class A folks would have been at impact}.

As far as things rushing and crushing forward that does not appear to be the case here and how would an A be any different? Roll a Class A onto the passenger side and hope for no fire as getting out can be problematic.

For the record lots of C's have front seats that swivel and if yours does not aftermarket swivel kits are available for most coaches.

Lastly, IMHO: the smiley face accompanying the photo in this post is in very poor taste. :R

You know and I know the smiley face had nothing to do with the picture. It had to do with the ignorant comment about Class C's being tested for crash worthiness.
The airbags would have held the people upright and prevented them from absorbing the impact of the debris behind them that would have crushed them.
There is not one single Class C that is tested for crash survivability and just because there is an airbag that does not mean that there was ever any testing for crash or roll over protection.
With a class A, you will be sitting several feet above a collision with an automobile rather than right at the same level. A head on with an automobile will be bad for the automobile and not so much for the people sitting well above the crash in the Class A.

You really need to look at your post again, pay particular attention {as I previously suggested}, to where the folks in a Class A would have been at impact. Several feet above the the impacting auto, which may or may not be true, doesn't buy you an ounce of safety. They would have been shredded by the impact, at least from the waist down and then there is that huge fishbowl windshield disintegrating to take out the rest of them.

The cab of the Class C is actually reasonably intact, the drivers side door pillar is unbent and there is nothing to indicate that anything came forward into the cab from the interior of the coach. As you noted the airbags would have kept the driver and passenger upright and secured by their seat belts giving them at least a decent chance of surviving though serious injury most certainly was part of the equation.

Come on man.... your explanations doesn't wash, man up and admit the smiley had no place in your post.

:S