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4X4Dodger wrote:

2012Coleman wrote:
What a load of horse stuff...

The writer is railing against the RV manufacturers because they are making products that are not compatible with his campground? He can't afford cable hookups and has narrow sites, so somehow this is a "chasm" between him and the manufacturers?

I guess he hasn't noticed that manufacturers make a wide spectrum of RV's that are compatible with his park - but for some reason he can't attract them.

Or maybe he doesn't know the meaning of competition - that since a TT has a cable hookup, and watching cable TV is a necessity for the owner, that his CG will be passed by for one that has the hookups.

I didn't see any suggestions offered - most likely because its a non issue.

In my view you have missed the entire meaning of the article.

The author is rightly pointing out that Some RV manufacturers are going down a road of development without regard for the rest of the industry or what they can accomodate/need or what the customer may really want.

This is a "Lead and they will follow" attitude on the part of those huge motorcoach builders. But that does not always work in business.

The rush to build ever larger more powerhungry RV's flies in the face of common sense and the market. It is also fairly irresponsible from a power conservation standpoint.

The point of the article to me is that buidlers need to be sync with the infrastructure in place, the market desires and the other parts of the industry, like aftermarket parts before they just drive off a cliff with some new design.

X2.

The author isn't saying manufacturers shouldn't make improvements, etc., but simply that manufacturers should make sure there is a viable source to make those improvements useful.

Considering that 50amp service has barely become a reasonable expectation at RV Parks, pushing out a bunch of 100amp rigs (and filling them with equipment that requires 100amps) is just setting everyone up for failure. The parks can't provide the service, the owners can't use all the stuff they paid for, and the manufacturer goes to the bank and says "you bought it".

Seems to me it's just more of the manufacturers' disinterest in producing quality products.