winnebago trend is now available class c
Trend is here linky MSRP 88,600
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SRJ,
I've read what you've lamented about concerning your Born Free. A lot of folks in the forums really brag-up their Born Free rigs. I feel for you as RV problems are the pits, since they're supposed to be for recreation ... not headaches. We looked at Born Frees when shopping before buying our new (then) ITASCA V10 Class C, but from what you say I guess we maybe lucked out by not going the Born Free route.
I agree with you on diesels with regards to heavy-duty applications. A Class C motorhome of course is a light-duty application in the diesel world and as such, the modern gas engines have advantages over diesels in this light-duty world here in the U.S., IMHO. What my BIL went through with his diesel rig I practically lived every minute of it with him as he went through it. He's now looking at Ford and RAM pickups with a tow trailer - after his sour experience with a supposedly quality diesel chassis and coach Class B combination.
I've shopped with him in some of his recent looking and what Ford, Chrysler, and GM are now doing with their gas engine development is amazing. They're power and torque is ultra smooth, vibration free, instantaneously on tap, and they idle very quietly inside and out. Along with these improved gas engine characteristics, it seems that in the gas world the engines are going up in mileage while in the diesel world as engineers try to duplicate these characteristics in light-duty diesel applications, diesel mileage is declining from what it used to be with the old diesel technology.
I've read what you've lamented about concerning your Born Free. A lot of folks in the forums really brag-up their Born Free rigs. I feel for you as RV problems are the pits, since they're supposed to be for recreation ... not headaches. We looked at Born Frees when shopping before buying our new (then) ITASCA V10 Class C, but from what you say I guess we maybe lucked out by not going the Born Free route.
I agree with you on diesels with regards to heavy-duty applications. A Class C motorhome of course is a light-duty application in the diesel world and as such, the modern gas engines have advantages over diesels in this light-duty world here in the U.S., IMHO. What my BIL went through with his diesel rig I practically lived every minute of it with him as he went through it. He's now looking at Ford and RAM pickups with a tow trailer - after his sour experience with a supposedly quality diesel chassis and coach Class B combination.
I've shopped with him in some of his recent looking and what Ford, Chrysler, and GM are now doing with their gas engine development is amazing. They're power and torque is ultra smooth, vibration free, instantaneously on tap, and they idle very quietly inside and out. Along with these improved gas engine characteristics, it seems that in the gas world the engines are going up in mileage while in the diesel world as engineers try to duplicate these characteristics in light-duty diesel applications, diesel mileage is declining from what it used to be with the old diesel technology.
