We have a Bounder 33C (its ratio is 50 percent). You are looking at a 35K (its ratio is 52 percent). We have a shorter wheel base and a slightly longer (4") overhang than the Bounder you are looking at.
We have driven our Bounder off road. Miles and miles of dirt and gravel all over the country. While we do take care to avoid extremely potholed, rutted, dirt roads, we do take ours many places others wouldn't. The only time we have 'dragged the rear end' was once, in Alaska, when we drove down a 6' embankment to park on a river edge. We took the bank at an angle and one skid bar of our reese hitch scraped the dirt. If you understand your departure angles, you can pretty much avoid ever scraping. Had we taken the embankment straight on, we probably would have bent the frame as the entire rear end would have been buried in dirt. If you take potential rear end drag situations very slowly and at an angle, you should have fewer problems. Typical RV drivers will find these at gas station and store entrances on occasion.
What we have to pay more attention to is high centering. The Bounder has a little more ground clearance that many other class As, which suits us fine. But we still have to be careful, particularly with built up railroad tracks (High centering is getting stuck or scraping the space between front and rear tires). The longer your wheel base, the greater the chance of high centering. Take them slow.
We looked at the new Bounders and the main reason we did not buy one was the windows. The windows on the new Bounders are frameless. They look good, but they barely open. Since we boondock and dry camp quite often, we like our windows to open as much as possible. The additional feature changed in the 2016s that turned us off was that the driver's side bays no longer slide out with the slide. While this allows great storage and pass through space, it makes getting to the storage while the slide is out a royal PITA. We loved many of the other upgrades - the added window in the bedroom, the better floor and wiring - but couldn't get past the window issue.
Our Bounder has been a great vehicle and home for two years now and we haven't come across any other class A we would trade it for. We think of ours as the little engine that could because it has taken us so many unexpected places without a complaint. Best of luck in your decision.
