The Future of RVing

pnichols wrote:

Veebyes wrote:
Except for those fulltiming or longtiming I am guessing that North America will follow the Europeans & discover that smaller is actually better. It took Detroit an awful long tme to build smaller cars, down from the land ships of the 50s-80s, encouraged by higher fuel prices though gas in the US is about the cheapest anywhere.

The Sprinter styled RVs are gaining in popularity now along with lighter towables. There will alaways be a market for the few who simply must bring the whole house plus toys for a 2 night weekend.

X10 .... IMHO that's where I think that U.S. RV'ing is going.

Unfortunately, one niche market doesn't get addressed with this appoach: The folks who want a small motorized RV that is carrying a lot less weight than the chassis under it is designed for. Some of us don't think it's best/wise to year after year be driving an RV vehicle around that's loaded to 90%-plus of it's capacity.

Both the Ford E450 and Chevy 4500 chassis address this Class B+ and small Class C market perfectly.

(It's a whole different discussion as to why some folks are in this niche market segment.)