Class B vs. Class C, of same length?

Guysakar wrote:
Thank you very much for your responses. I read every one of them and got an education.

I am thinking I may try and find a true B model. I guess, at the end of the day, I can't have a roomy interior and compact exterior. Damn laws of physics, I curse thee.

I sometimes have back problems and need to sleep on the floor, and finding a true B van model with enough room to "comfortably" sleep on the floor is proving to be a challenge. I wonder how much of that stuff I can rip out, to open up the floor space, and how much of it is permanently there. Like the dinette booth and table thing. I wonder if those boxes underneath can be removed to open up the floor space.




I was considering going the Sprinter rout as someone mentioned, but everything I hear about their reliability and maintenance cost just scares me away.

Buying a Sprinter and converting it myself (I don't need much) seemed very desirable, as I think I could actually get my motorcycle inside of it with little issue (no trailer = huge +). But again, the more I researched, the more nervous I got.


Off to RV Trader and CL. Thanks again for all of the help. Great responses and information. Thank you.

One of the guys I worked with in the Air Force carried his motorcycle in the "middle" space of his 2nd generation VW Type 2 camper. I don't remember whether his was a Westfalia or Sportmobile conversion (we had three of them in our work group, not remember who had which). The motorcycle was a TR-120, and he got it in by taking out the table. Now, a TR was a pretty big bike for its day, but in our era of supersize everything it might be considered small.

Vans today are a whole lot bigger than a 2nd generation Type 2, and there is a lot of space to work out furnishings vs. floorspace and load space, if you make your own decisions about what goes in and where it goes. You buy a ready-made B motorhome and those decisions have been made, no consideration for carrying large cargo items. Due to the nature of the market, the prices that have to be asked, B motorhomes tend to be loaded with luxuries for living, nicely finished, and not built as cargo haulers.

For your own build, a van like the Express or E-Series has about six feet of usable width inside, and I know the E-series has just under 20 feet length behind the front row of seats, standard length, and another 40 inches on the extended length. Chevy Express numbers are similar, might be more generous in length, and the Express does not have an interior wall to get in the way of conversion work. Sprinter, Ram Promaster, Transit, I don't know usable dimensions. I'm working with a E-350 so I know what space that has inside.

Sportmobile builds multi-purpose conversions, range from type B luxury motorhome to spaces built first purpose as toy haulers, people haulers or work spaces for business or hobby, second purpose as some space to live. They've probably already worked out how to build around a motorcycle, as well as load and unload it, and anchor it down when loaded.