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
RobertRyan wrote:
Pnichols I have driven a 41ft E450 and the "Winnebago" Now AVIDA esperance and your vehicle has an exceedingly high COG. Best thing you can do is find out why people use the Chassis's they do to build Expedition vehicles, they are Automotive engineers, it is not some style statement.
Your vehicle is an exceedingly poor "Off Pavement" vehicle and would be very dangerous if driven even sedately off pavement.I would go 4 X4 Sportsmobile if you want to do that.
Robert,
I'm an engineer, so ... please provide facts not opinions, if possible, that will raise my Itasca's COG relative to an expedition vehicle's. What would be best is if you would respond to my Itasca's mass-location list that I provided, item by item, comparing it to an actual expedition vehicle typical of those in your photos. You might be surprised as to where their designers wound up putting the heavy parts of the vehicle.
I know how to drive offroad (not rockcrawling, however) and I know what's required for extremes - I've done much of it since 1997 in the California outback and some in the High Sierras in a pretty much full-on Jeep with huge tires and about 16 forward gears. My father had over-the-top hunting vehicles and I was raised around them and other trucks.
My Itasca will not do extremes and I've never claimed that. However FWIW, assuming your photo can be taken at face value our Itasca would also do just fine in the Algerian desert if I could get the parts and gasoline for it there (which I couldn't). I'm curious, have you ever been on the Monument Valley's not-recommended-for-RVs road??
My Itasca will not go to a bunch of places offroad, but it will go to to a bunch places offroad, too. The key is to go slow and pick your track. Firefighters, other offroad emergency responders, forest rangers, oil field workers, and field scientists usually do not have the time to go slow so they need more raw steel around them to keep things together - but ultimately winding up with about the same COG location as that of our Itasca.
P.S. Of course our Itasca DOES NOT have slides to reduce the strength and integrity of it's wall structure.
