hohenwald48 wrote:
PastorCharlie wrote:
Why the big effort to segarate vehicle drives by engine choices?
:h :R
I don't think there's any "big effort to segregate" anything. It's just a way to differentiate one drive train type from another. Helps you understand how things work when folks are describing a particular vehicle. Kind of like calling one vehicle a SUV and another a minivan.
In fact, Allegro has starting calling them REDs (rear engine diesel). Just a marketing way to say DP.
Tiffen only calls the Allegro RED a RED. They call their Breeze, Allegro, Phaeton, Bus and Zephyr all by their respective names and they are all diesel pushers. I don't see any effort to impose the term RED (Rear Engine Diesel) onto any of the other lines except RED - a long standing Tiffen model name. I think it was just a quirky name they came up with at one time and it stuck enough to label one of their models in the lineup.
Us humans sure spend a lot of time worrying about how terms get started and why we continue using them. Kind of pathetic. I grew up with Triple Tow meaning a camper and a boat behind a station wagon, and a Class A meaning a big rectangular box with headlights. Now the trucking industry tries to dominate the terms for double and triple tow and push their version into RV land, and I see FMCA uses "Type" A, B, and C motorhomes to avoid inferring any kind of stature associated with different classes. Jee-zoots some people have a lot of time on their hands.
