Off Road Class C Motorhome and Extended Tray

RobertRyan wrote:
Pnichols wrote:

Ours does not drive like a long length, heavy, rental Tioga probably does - ours has a tight, compact, well-braked feel when going level, up, or down - in winds or not. The E450's thicker steel frame also will reduce longitunal torsion twisting of the frame on rutted roads if the Class C coach above it is a small one. This helps keep the coach from being subjected to floor deformation when on uneven surfaces over what the E350 would provide.

Outside of a completely different vehicle to what I drove, I find that hard to believe, You E450 is as much Off Road from your own photos as that Class A pulling a small Trailer.

Robert,

Going back to the straight-forward point in my very first post in this long and interesting thread: If you would be so kind as to post some of the rear track widths on some of those tall and narrow expedition vehicles in your photos, I'll go out and measure my E450's rear track width and post it here for comparison of geometries.

My little ole' Class C is nothing like a behemoth American Class A and I can pretty much guarantee that their owners would not go to where we go rockhounding. Here's a photo of my offroad pickup in the California outback as proof that I do know what "offroad" means, by the way:



Here's a "very mild and gentle road" we went on to some fossil beds 13 months ago that you probably won't find many/any Class A's trying to travel on. When we got to where this road ended out in the middle of nowhere in Western Utah the only other thing there were - you guessed it - good old SUVs of the same types and sizes as I see in so many Australian photos pulling their tiny raised trailers behind them.