What coach would you buy for $$$$ ?

RayChez wrote:

Peralko wrote:

HOM wrote:
It seems that most everyone agrees that you can't go wrong with the top of the line American Coach and Newmar. Some have mentioned Country Coach that fell into my out of business area.

I would like the Country Coach fans to make the case for that coach. Why would you buy a Country Coach that is out of business over an American Eagle and Heritage or a Newmar Essex, London Aire and King Aire who are in business?

Thanks,

HJ

Yes and no they are out of business. While they are no longer manufacturing coaches, Ron Lee (one of the originators of the company) bought the intellectual property in the bankruptcy auction and started a new company with the same name. As far as support goes, you will get as good support from the current Country Coach corporation as you will get from any other coach manufacturer. Ron is also looking at restarting coach production--with a prototype Allure in the works.
Why are we Country Coach "fanatics"? Quality is the biggest reason. I looked at a two-year old Essex in Las Vegas two years ago that had ill-fitting engine and outside storage doors. I have looked at brand-new American high-line products with raw, unfinished wood in closets and pantries, and I could go on. The quality of the woodwork in our cabinets is second to none.
Compare empty weight of a Country Coach to a similar one from another brand, and you will usually see it's heavier--much heavier-duty construction. Most other companies build a house on top of a Spartan or Freightliner chassis--Country Coach built their own from the late 90's--previously, like ours, they were built on a commercial bus chassis.
One of the things I personally like are the heated floors--installed in most of their up-scale coaches since the mid-2000s. You don't know what you're missing until you've tried them.
Our target on replacing our coach is 2016, and we have our eyes on a 2008 Magna or Affinity.

Country coach built there own chassis and it was not the same as commercial buses. They had their own two piece chassis frames and that might be a problem when a company goes belly up and they make their own frames. You know Freightliner and Spartan have been around for many years and are pretty standard, but some of these frames that are specially made for certain coaches and then they go belly up, it could be trouble

Ray, you are plain wrong! Our coach is built on a commercial bus chassis. Gillig is still in business building commercial buses. The story I heard was that Gillig helped Country Coach design their chassis, the Dynomax, and from what I can tell, the two chassis are very similar. And since the current corporation has the intellectual property of the previous company, they will have no trouble producing new chassis and coaches--from a design and production perspective. Funding for production is a different issue. But I've heard of several folks who are waiting to buy a new Country Coach. Unfortunately, they won't be in our price range.:(