Coach?

Had an acquaintance when we lived in CO who bought a used Prevost. It had no slides and was - to be polite - very well used. And not real big. And older.

The rest of us had 5ers or travel trailers. We paid far more for our units - most of us - than he did for his.

He REALLY got upset if his was called ANYTHING but a coach. After all, he was a retired attorney from New York City.

So we all called it his MO HO for motorhome. He would grit his teeth when he heard that. And we would chuckle.

I really enjoy my coach.

I find calling it a "house battery" a bit ridiculous, since it's not a 'house'. But it sure is the clearest way of identifying which one you're referring to.

Jim, "Be obscure clearly."

The term COACH has been around for well over 100 years. How about the STAGECOACH?

Sometimes we call our's a camper, RV, M/H or Money Pit. We also refer to it as a coach once in a while. No harm No foul.

I would take issue with one poster who said something along the lines of if it's $400,000.00 it's a coach. Now that's "PRENTENTIOUS" by definition.

Personaly, I con't care what someone borrows from the bank to buy their $500,000.00 PLUS Motor Coach. They have to make the payments not me. For me my 2002 Motorized Trailer has one big advantage. I have the title to it...

Crowe wrote:
Seriously? It's an RV!

Seriously? This is all you have in life to worry about?

Seriously? You think I am worried? I mislead! Just stirrin' the pot.

Seems to have worked! :)

And yep, I still find it pretentious.

I use the term with clients to define between the coach and the chassis of any motorhome including Class A, B and C,s. I've never heard of that term being considered "pretentious". What would make it so.

Seriously? It's an RV!

Seriously? This is all you have in life to worry about? There's nothing pretentious, snobby, or anything about it. It's a word, a noun, that has multiple meanings much like the rest of the English language. Try worrying about something IMPORTANT.

When we had our class A motorhome, we never called it a 'coach'. As with all our RV's, we called it the camper. We never felt the need to use the word 'coach'; we were not trying to impress anyone. If makes someone feel better calling their MH a 'coach', so be it.

noplace2 wrote:
Seriously? It's an RV!

That's like saying travel trailers and 5th wheels aren't RV's (Recreational VEHICLES).

noplace2 wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
It's pretentious

THERE'S the word I was looking for! :B

Why would calling what it is be pretentious?

It was a "coach" long before anybody even ever thought of the term 'recreational vehicle' was even thought of.

BTW, I'm told the first person to popularize the term 'coach' for what we now know as a Motorhome was a guy who liked to travel around camping with his friends in a truck converted to a camping outfit he called a "motor coach".

His name was Henry Ford, probably not someone you'd call pretentious.