Off Road Class C Motorhome and Extended Tray
This is a local builder and their Off Road Class C Motorhome with a rear deck. Common on Caravans rare on Motorhomes, especially Off Road ones.
Forum Discussion
PNichols wrote:
In no way am/was I overall comparing an E450 van to those weird looking, purpose-built, ultra high dollar expedition vehicles in raw ground obstacle clearance capability and traction capability.
What I was trying to bring attention to in my post(s) above was that they, geometry-wise, look a bit too narrow for their heights
There not. What they may appear to you has nothing to do with their performance.
After looking at those two vastly different profiles - ask yourself which design you'd rather have in a vehicle that you are tipped sideways in on the side of a sand dune, or equivalent side-slope?
The Humvee is not a great Off Road vehicle. it was designed as a fast attack vehicle, to be used in manly desert conditions. That is why used ones are not used as Off Road Vehicles, were not designed as such.
By the way and for what it's worth, HumVees also have a relatively unknown design trump that hardly any, or no, expedition vehicles have - universal joints right at each wheel with the wheel's drive axle immediately sloping steeply upwards right from the wheel to meet high differentials - no horizontal drive axle coming out from the wheels to get banged up. This is NOT merely "independent suspension", as the differentials are up high up and not at all inline with the wheels when the vehicle is at rest.
You can get that with some Expedition vehicles but does not matter that much.
We are every bit as "rugged" and "high above the ground" as the vast majority of pickups and SUVs (...that is, "U.S." pickups and SUVs, don't know about Australian ones...). However my main point is, our E450 rig has a wide stance so as to help us feel secure on side-slopes and in high side-winds.
No you are not.It does not have a wide stance and is unstable in winds. Your Rig is a road going Class C Motorhome that can run on graded dirt roads, like many cars and Motorhomes in including Class A's , nothing more.In really Off Road Conditions it is useless.
Class A "Off Road" Motorhome. By the way I had a chance to drive a E450 Tioga Rental from Apollo Motohomes while going across the US. I was not the main driver but had a chance to drive it on a Freeway(kept 60mph), it was a barge to drive and yes wind buffeting was extremely noticeable when being passed by Class A trucks.
