Winnebago Trend - First Drive Impressions
My wife and I recently test drove a 2014 Winnebago Trend 23L (same as the Itasca Viva) and were very impressed. As previous View owners that was the benchmark for our comparison. We then drove a new...
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mlts22 wrote:
This is good info on the Trend. I've wondered what people would think of it, and the added price tag (about ten grand over a Spirit due to the Euro styling.)
I prefer the 23L floor plan because the bed is always present. The 23 B has a lot more inside room, but having a permanent bed and the larger corner storage space does help.
The only thing I would probably upgrade would be the converter. One dealer said it was a single stage (and he could be wrong.) If it is, it is in a place where there isn't that much room to expand, so I'd probably wind up going with a Magnum Energy MMS 1012 "dogbone" converter/inverter that has four stages.
I would do the converter, and try to upgrade the battery capacity. It does have a group 31 AGM (which ain't bad for a single battery) but more is gooder. The RV has decent OCCC for its size so two 6 volt AGM batteries would be ideal (if the space could be made available).
