I've got a 26' that I got last summer, used. Took it on a couple of trips through the mountains, ran like a charm especially with the banks system on the v10. The biggest difference I saw between the 22/24 and 26/27 is the layout of the bedroom. The shorter ones seem to have the main bed shoved into the corner and the bathroom on the other side. The bigger ones have the whole back end a bedroom, mine has the split toilet and shower so the hallway is in the middle ( I can actually use the rear view mirror that way) DW likes the separated bedrooms since we have different sleep patterns, curtains don't cut it.
Once you get past the bathroom, there's the kitchen, then the living room area. Ours has the overhead bunk so you can sleep a couple people up there as well. Anything over 29' in this state gets dinged for extra length when traveling on the ferry. Still not cheep but can make the difference between driving around or taking the boat. I can park the 26' in a regular parking lot end to end without blocking traffic. That said, I still have the E350 passenger van with a couple of camp cots in the back when even a motorhome is too big. Both the van and the MH are only a couple years apart, and they drive pretty similarlly, MH acts like the van with a heavy load.
