RV Mfg's Missing a new market segment
After full timing for two years now and meeting and talking to hundreds of other fellow travelers one thing is apparent to me. The RV Manufacturers are missing or unaware of a significant market se...
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free radical wrote:
There are always people with unusual ideas,demands (nothing wrong with that btw)
And this tread reminds me of someone on expedition forum being set on designing building and selling humongous self contained home on wheels and also pulling trailer with hidden 4x4 all over the world,,allegedly aimed at very rich retired couples..nice idea but slightly out of touch with reality of who exactly would be interested in such vehicle
http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/124789-TerraLiner-12-m-Globally-Mobile-Beach-House-Class-A-Crossover-w-6x6-Hybrid-Drivetrain
This may be a bit off topic and I am not sure if you meant your post satirically or not but actually those expedition vehicles (Not necessarily like the one pictured) are very popular with the Europeans and at any given time there are thousands of them traversing the Globe.
Their history goes back to the 1960's and 1970's when companies primarily in Britain started doing what was called Overland tours using trucks very similar but that could carry up to 15 people. these tours usually started in London and ended in CapeTown South Africa.
Those tours were very popular with my generation in Europe and in retirement those same folks have bought their own Expedition Vehicles and travel the world with them. It is not unusual to see them in the US.
Last year when I was in La Paz Baja 3 or 4 of these come through there every day headed either north to the States from South America or back south. (they take the ferry from La Paz to the mainland)
When I lived in Asia and in Egypt I saw these on an almost daily basis. Some of them are quite amazing and usually based on European Military vehicles or commercial trucks. It seems like a good way to see the world to me.
