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fortytwo wrote:

The engineers and management at Winnebago mostly have zero experience as RV'ers. It shows!

You know it's strange you say that, because at the the 60th anniversary rally this year (yes 60 years - 52 building motorhomes) I was impressed to see that Winnebago puts all of the employees helping with the rally in motorhomes on the grounds for the duration of the rally and the preparation the week prior, and the owners have had their own campsite near the amusement park on the rally grounds for over 40 years where they park their motorhome. I had the electrical design engineer manager and an employee from the assembly line actually come in our coach for a soda to look at the upgrade I did on the surge suppression because I felt theirs was inadequate. They did this as part of an ongoing program they do to listen to real user issues with the products. Their goal was to hear back from at least 75% of the 900 units while at the rally. Not saying the Engineers and managers are all RVers, but they are certainly not ignorant to the concept :)