***From Consumeratlarge: "I wonder if there was a magazine or website, like consumer's reports, that reviewed quality control honestly, (without fear of losing ad dollars), that it would be possible to have instantaneous improvement in our domestic RV's, though?"***
I have made this point here before and it bears repeating. If what you suggest above really happened the quality would improve shortly. This is proven everyday by the automotive press that reviews cars and trucks.
If Mr Lemonis and GSE would stop being the lapdog of the RV industry and take a strong and principled editorial stand on RV Build quality in Trailer Life and Motorhome magazines things would change.
Companies do respond to market pressure and this is one of the surest ways to create it.
However as I read the vast majority of the posts in this thread it leaves me wondering if anyone actually travels overseas or has ever taken economics beyond 101. So much Jingoism and Nationalism is breathtaking. If a foreign manufacturer started building HIGH quality affordable RV's in this country the other manufacturers would have to respond in kind or be left behind. This is what happened in the late 70's and early 80's with the US auto makers when faced with clearly superior products from Japan. Detroit then turned itself around and started improving what had been frankly a terrible product. Now our cars are some of the best in the world.
Was Detroits lack of innovation and quality caused by drug addled or immigrant workers? NO. that's an absurd notion. It is very simply the consumer demand of the majority of RV buyers for LOW Prices.
