Researching stages
My husband and I will have more opportunity for longer travel in 3 1/2 years. I am researching Motorhomes so we can begin taking some weekend/holiday trips then eventually take some longer 2-3 week t...
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Pugapillar wrote:
Thanks, Roy&Lynne, We do plan to tow a vehicle. I need to research that topic too.
Also do RV manufactures who own different lines treat them like American Car lines such as Ford/Lincoln/Mercury or Chevy/GMC/Cadillac?
How does that work with RV's.?
It works differently at different manufacturers. Sometimes different brands are basically the same (Winnebago-Itasca come to mind) and differences in size and trim are model lines within that brand.
Sometimes different brands represent increases in size and cost, Forest River and Thor are currently doing this, but Thor used to have competing semi-parallel brands, as many as three equivalent brands in some cases.
Monaco Corp, once it had acquired several other companies, overlapped Monaco and Holiday Rambler at the low end, added Safari at low-middle, and Beaver in the middle, carrying only Beaver and Monaco brands to the top. Within each of these brands there were as many as a half dozen different model lines scaling in size, equipment, and cost. That was before they collapsed, I don't know how the re-organized company is doing things.
Fleetwood did a little of both. While all were Fleetwood, they would sometimes have two parallel brands with model lines within (e.g. Tioga-Jamboree), or just two equivalent model lines with the Fleetwood brand (e.g. the Terra-Fiesta pair).
Others are just one brand (like Newmar) with different model lines covering different sizes and price points.
Badge engineering to create differently priced versions of the same car is to support a social status use for the buyers. That doesn't work so well for RVs because hardly anybody understands which one is the Chevy and which one is the Buick.
