BillJ999 wrote:
motive8 wrote:
One potential drawback is that due to the slightly larger size, ...
People often think that the 200 is much larger that a 190, but the real dimensions indicate this isn't so. If I take the 2000 model year as an example, the 200 is 20'6" long and the 190 is 19'11". That is just a 7 inch difference. Many people add the Continental Spare tire kit to the 190 to increase storage space and end up with a vehicle longer that the 200. As far as width goes, the 200 is 7 inches wider at the rear, but that's irrelevant. The widest part of any vehicle is the mirrors, and I'm sure all RTs on the same chassis end up with the same width. If the mirrors make it through, the rest of it should.
Just trying to make your decision a bit harder ... hope I'm succeeding! ;)
Yep, you're making my decision harder, lol! ;)
When you put it that way, it's really not that much bigger. Looking at pictures of the vehicles, they seem larger - especially when you go to extremes and compare a 170 to a 210. Sometimes just a few inches make a difference when the parking spaces are really small. Older parking lots are sometimes better as the spaces were made for larger cars, but some of the new parking lots are made for todays smaller cars, and even at that I find them tight.
I guess in those cases you just park further away where there are a lot of empty parking spaces and use more than one spot, and hope nobody gets nasty about that, or parks right beside you on purpose (I saw someone do that - there was a nice new Corvette parked far away from all the other cars, he parked over the line and also drove partly into the spaces in front, so he really took up 4 spaces, in a parking lot that was maybe 50% full, but someone in a beat up old clunker parked RIGHT next to him, and I mean really close, so it would be hard to open a door without it hitting the other car). And no, I was not the driver of either of those cars, honest!
Most importantly, if I want to park my MH at home, and the condo or townhouse complex has smaller parking spaces, I might be out of luck. Even with a 170 or 190 it might be tight if it's a newer building and they've made the parking spaces just big enough for today's smaller compact and mid-size cars. Sometimes I even find it hard to squeeze in and out of my Chevy Astro in those kinds of parking spaces.
