Buying advice HTT Aerolite and kodiak 18ft

Cotay wrote:

bikendan wrote:

erdvm1 wrote:
That is why I am looking at those two. The kodiak seems to have less options and slightly lower grade finishes. Do you have any info about the questions I posed above?

as far as i know, they are built with all the same materials, so the quality should be the same because they are twins. as far as options, don't know about that.
but their rep for hybrids hasn't been that great since the Thermarest ends disaster.

Thor has been doing some weird things in the past few years. they don't seem to be able to make up their minds about their hybrids. for one brand to have less models than the other, even though some are twins.
Aerolite has only 3 hybrids and Kodiak has 4. they share the same model for the one you're looking at but the other hybrids are different.

Kodiak seems to have a longer list of standard/optional features than Aerolite has way more floorplans for their whole line.

like i said, they used to have the exact same floorplans, model for model. and they were made in the same factory, on the same assembly line. they had the same materials, standard features and options.
if that's changed, i've never heard or read that has occurred.
since the Thermarest debacle, Aerolite/Kodiak hybrid sales took a nose dive and they haven't recovered since.
i think that's why, along with the economy, Thor has cut back on the number of floorplans that are available.

In this case the Aerolite has more standard features than the Kodiak. As an owner of the Aerolite 174es I can confirm that the Kodiak is not as well appointed but it is close. The Coleman version is the best appointed of the three however.