pnichols wrote:
I'm curious ... does Ford even still make available an E350 E-Series cutaway chassis for the few builders still wishing to offer some of their Class B+/C products based on the good-old E-Series chassis? How could someone even buy a U.S. sourced Class B+/C motorhome based on an "overkill" chassis anymore other than on the E450 chassis ... since IMHO the Mercedes 3500 and crop of newer U.S. OEM sourced delivery van cutaway chassis are not much "overkill" - under even a small Class B+/C.
Ford certainly still offers the E350 to motorhome builders...and others. Bear in mind that motorhomes are only a portion of the E series market; a lot of them go into things like ambulances, shuttle busses, smallish box trucks, etc. The lighter duty chassis is often a perfectly good match for some of those applications.
(Ford sells about 50,000 E series chassis per year. According to the RVIA, its members shipped a total of around 30,000 class C motorhomes in 2018, and 35,000 in 2017. It would seem that motorhomes probably account for maybe half of the E series chassis produced, at least in very rough terms.)
