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Fastpaddler
May 06, 2015Explorer
avanti wrote:If you want a rig with the latest and greatest, you will need to go to a place like Sportsmobile or Advanced RV and have one custom built.
You should also take a look at Great West Vans. They have consistently been an industry leader in innovative technologies--often derived from special-requests from their customers. Some examples include: First screen door in a Sprinter; first clearspan trifold slide-forward sofa bed; first use of Espar diesel-fired heat/hot-water. ARV took all of these features as well as the basic floorpan as the basis of their design--adding their own technology innovations and upscale finishes.
On our 2014 GWV Legend, we had them add a number of features such as those that OP mentions, including a freshwater accumulator, compressor refrigerator, and an Outback inverter/charger (note that high-end inverters incorporate power monitoring features--there is no need for add-ons). Great West is very willing to customize according to your ideas, and often incorporates them as they evolve their designs.
On the subject of Great West Vans, and Davydd had one, I always liked them but they pulled the plug on my home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba ostensibly because their water lines kept freszing but possibly because the new US location is a superior tax location. So--we Canadians, battered by US dollar value against our dollar are the losers. And, the Canadian RV manufacturers will increase prices here as the components often come from the US which means higher prices for the fabricators. It is a lose/lose situation for us here. Outside of the Advance RV units I still like the GWVans in that kind of configuration although my wife wants, as I noted before, an LTV Unity TB.
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