"Maximum 24 ft or longer" question
I'm looking now since quite a while for a used RV and I noticed that Class C's that are 26 ft long (or longer) are significantly less expensive that the shorter ones that are no longer than 24 ft. ...
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You should notice no difference driving, or in MPG, a 24-foot vs 25-foot B+/C, but it will not be like driving a B or a van. The box for the B+/C RV will usually be at least 7 1/2 feet wide, more often 8 to 8 1/2 feet, and mirrors might take width to 9 1/2 to 10 feet. You can learn to handle the width, every truck and motorcoach driver learns to adapt.
Parking is where the width tends to matter more, and it depends on where you are in the country, and whether you are dealing with rural vs urban parking situations. There are not many places in urban environments where a single parking space fits a 24-foot vehicle of "maximum normal" width, i.e. 80 inches in the U.S. I know because I am dealing daily with a vehicle that wide only slightly over 20 feet long. In most parking lots, and almost all street parking, 24 feet is going to take more than one space in length, so it might as well be 28 to 32 feet long.
But still, at 8 1/2 wide, 29' 8" long, I can almost always find a place to park somewhere near where I want to be, even though I cannot take just any space open (the way I can in my subcompact car).
Parking is where the width tends to matter more, and it depends on where you are in the country, and whether you are dealing with rural vs urban parking situations. There are not many places in urban environments where a single parking space fits a 24-foot vehicle of "maximum normal" width, i.e. 80 inches in the U.S. I know because I am dealing daily with a vehicle that wide only slightly over 20 feet long. In most parking lots, and almost all street parking, 24 feet is going to take more than one space in length, so it might as well be 28 to 32 feet long.
But still, at 8 1/2 wide, 29' 8" long, I can almost always find a place to park somewhere near where I want to be, even though I cannot take just any space open (the way I can in my subcompact car).
