Quality of Class C

pianotuna wrote:
Well I think the Laze Daze may put the Winnie to shame--so the OP should at least look.

Well ... maybe not necessarily do the Ford chassis Lazy Daze models put certain Winnebago Ford chassis models to shame:

1. The Laze Daze is low-profile (not very tall) Class C because it is not a basement-design Class C - which means it's cab floor is about the same height as the coach floor. This means it's outside storage cabinets are not very tall and hence can't carry as much stuff as a basement-design Class C can. However this also means that in a non-basement-design Class C it's easy to have a passenger seat that swivels to face the coach area without having one's legs sticking out straight in front of them, plus have a swiveled seat that's difficult to get up out of when facing back towards the coach.

2. A low-profile Class C also will have a cabover bed area with less vertical headroom - meaning one can't get upright enough in the cabover bed to exit it as conveniently, and will have to bend down a lot to get into it ... if they want to use it for serious sleeping night after night.

3. A low-profile Class C (hence having matching coach/cab floor heights) will also have a cabover bed requiring about one more step on it's ladder to get up into it and down out of it.

4. If the Lazy Daze is still using wood wall framing (as they used to) ... then that is not the strongest construction technique. Aluminum or steel framing is of course more preferred.

5. The Lazy Daze aluminum roof has one disadvantage. One best not get caught in a nasty hail storm in a Lazy Daze ... aluminum roofs can be dented by hail.

Our Itasca (Winnebago) Class C is a basement design with 6 generous outside storage cabinets. Due to their additional height, two of them even have sections that go all the way laterally across the chassis (under the coach floor) for storage of long items. I'm 6'2" and can comfortably get into, get out of, and sleep in, the cabover bed without any feeling of claustrophobia - using just 2-3 steps up/down the ladder on it's comfortable flat rungs. Our interior wall framing is all aluminum for lightness and strength ... and the one-piece fiberglass roof will not get dented from freak hail stones.

However, we can't retrofit our passenger seat into a swiveling one unless we use about a 4 inch thick cushion on the seat whenever it was to be facing back into the coach area.

So ... as many in these forums have stated so many times ... choosing an RV is all about trade-offs and compromises! What can you live with, and what can you live without?