Need Purchasing Options!
Right now FORD dominated the Gas Class A chassis business and I personally feel that competition is good for the RV consumer. Perhaps a company like Freightliner or Spartan could come with with a chas...
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bagman wrote:
If any company could, it would be Freightliner! They have all there resources to compete with FORD! Competition is good for consumers and a monopoly is not! If the only pick up truck that was available was the FORD, do you really think FORD would have an incentive to build better pick up trucks! The answer is a resounding "NO!"
I forgot. Either late 80's or early 90's John Deere had a rear pusher Gas engine chassis that failed to make a splash. There is no Ford monopoly in how you apply it. The other competitors went away. So, Ford has the business. I don't see any real failures of the Ford chassis. It does the job and there is NOT a whole lot you can do to improve a basic chassis/Powertrain. Freightliner is not going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and engineer a Gas chassis for a dwindling market. Doug
