gas vs. diesel engine motor home
which is better? if you had a chance to get a new or close to new gas engine motor home, vs. a 8yr old diesel motor home (due to pocket book) both 35'long, to travel across USA, but only plan to keep ...
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rgatijnet1 wrote:blangen wrote:
Aside from the diesel preferred answers above (I'm in that camp, too), the other pertinent criteria is depreciation. That new gasser will lose the greatest percentage of value in the time it takes you to sign the paperwork. If you go high end diesel (as recommended immediately above... and I agree for several reasons), your percentage of lost value over a six year period will be MUCH less.
Is that what you told your wife? :B
I posted on here about my friends high end Prevost DP,that cost in excess of $1 million and now, after 20,000 miles and ten years, it MAY be worth 15%-20% of what it cost. For the 3/4 million that he lost in depreciation you could buy a few other coaches.
It is nice to talk percentages but the REAL facts are dollars and the amount of dollars that you may lose in depreciation from a new DP will far exceed the money that you may lose with a new gasser.
We're not talking about million dollar rigs here. By "high end", I mean the top of the line for any manufacturer... just not commercial bus chassis. Mine, for example is a 2004 Damon 4194, top of their line for that year. My thought is that each manufacturer does the best job they can on the top of the line coach and, maybe, cuts a few corners on the lesser models. By picking top of the line, one hopes to get longevity, both in use as well as residual value.
