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avidude's avatar
avidude
Explorer
Oct 19, 2013

What Happened to Spartan?

I was at the Pomona RV show yesterday. Visited all of the class A manufacturers. I did not see one that was built on a Spartan Chassis! Monaco, HR and Tiffin (AllegroBus) were on their proprietary chassis, everyone else was on Freightliner. It appears that Spartan left the RV chassis business.
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  • moisheh's avatar
    moisheh
    Explorer
    Oct 20, 2013
    Beaver?? Is AVS going to build Beaver's??? Haven't hard that one before. They are not making Sig's and even the Dynasty is not ready for production. I don't think we will see any high end Monaco products.

    Moisheh
  • tatest's avatar
    tatest
    Explorer II
    Oct 19, 2013
    Newmar still uses Spartan for larger motorhomes in their high-end lines.

    If you saw only Freightliners, you set your sights low, or dealers didn't bring the big ones to the show.
  • bluwtr49's avatar
    bluwtr49
    Explorer II
    Oct 19, 2013
    I believe the new Beavers will be built on Spartan chassis.
  • dougrainer's avatar
    dougrainer
    Nomad
    Oct 19, 2013
    Spartan is geared towards the Hi end 41 foot (tag axle) and above motorhome market. Doug
  • JohnnyT's avatar
    JohnnyT
    Explorer II
    Oct 19, 2013
    avidude wrote:
    I was at the Pomona RV show yesterday. Visited all of the class A manufacturers. I did not see one that was built on a Spartan Chassis! Monaco, HR and Tiffin (AllegroBus) were on their proprietary chassis, everyone else was on Freightliner. It appears that Spartan left the RV chassis business.


    Acutally the Upper end of the Newmar line (Essex and King Aire, the Tiffin Zypher, and the Entegra's are on Spartan Chassis.

    Don't think Spartan has left the RV industry, but it does look like they have lost market share... Think we are looking at price point issue...

    Johnny
  • J-Rooster's avatar
    J-Rooster
    Explorer
    Oct 19, 2013
    Nomadac wrote:
    All Entegra MH's are built on Spartan Chassis's. Since they in essence bought the rights to Travel Supreme their quality is better and they have made great improvement on the products that Travel Supreme built.
    I'm glad to hear this! I'm glad to hear that Spartan is not a obsolete chassis like mine!
  • wnytaxman's avatar
    wnytaxman
    Explorer
    Oct 19, 2013
    From what I understand Freightliner bought the RV business by undercutting their pricing. American Coach switched to Freightliner chassis and I'm sure it has cost them at least a few sales.
  • Nomadac's avatar
    Nomadac
    Explorer
    Oct 19, 2013
    All Entegra MH's are built on Spartan Chassis's. Since they in essence bought the rights to Travel Supreme their quality is better and they have made great improvement on the products that Travel Supreme built.

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