Thanks to all you DP Pushers!!

mike brez wrote:

dezolen wrote:
Obviously no one has driven a new gas coach. Noise is not an issue. What good is a deisel that sits in an RV park most of it's life. Guess it's ok if money is no object

We'll I recently took out a 2013 Bounder 35K with a V10 and it was the most most noisy thing ever. I could not wait to get it back to the dealers lot. So yea I have driven a new gas coach.

You make a very valid point. Each person has to make their own decision on cost vs usage. If you only make a couple trips a year like I do (only 4 to 6000 miles per year) then it just doesn't make sense to spend way more money for something you hardly use. Now if I was a full timer or spent months each year driving over the Rockies then I would own a diesel. At 2200rpm and 65mph my new gasser isn't loud at all. And I got gas as low as $3.09/gal this fall. Going up a steep mountain grade it is loud. The time I spend on steep mountain grades is close to zero. I'll enjoy my roomy king bed bath and a half fully equipped 38' gasser more than I would a way more expensive diesel (higher initial cost, higher fuel cost, higher maintenance cost). But once again, if I was full timing or close to that, a DP would be my first choice. The sad thing is so many people buy one or the other, use it once or twice, and then it sits parked somewhere and they take a bath on depreciation. A lot of the happiest DP owners in here are the ones that picked up a low mileage used DP at a fraction of its new cost. That's probably the smartest way to own a DP. Unless of course you are Big Daddy Warbucks who owns a Prevost just because he can and uses it once or twice a year for Nascar, etc. like a buddy of mine. It sure looks nice in his big driveway sitting next to his McMansion. No matter what you got there's somebody with something bigger and better. And if you are happy with what you got the rest of the bs is just breaking wind. :)