mr61impala wrote:
I found this on another RV website, don't know how to share the link but you could google 8 worst travel trailers. I know Forest River is not one brand, and that Coachmen is now a Forest River brand, but this is how it appeared.
Note: Since there are a lot of different options related to the question: “Which are travel trailer brands to avoid?”, to provide a fair answer, we conducted a survey to Camping is our life – a favorite Facebook group of many RVers with more than 100,000 members. With appropriately 3,000 answers, here is what we got:
What travel trailers brands to avoid in 2020:
Forest River travel trailer brand: 45%
Keystone travel trailer brand: 26%
Jayco travel trailer brand: 15%
Coachmen travel trailer brand: 5%
Winnebago travel trailer brand: 3%
Fleetwood travel trailer brand: 2%
Gulf Stream travel trailer brand: 1%
The rest 3% came to some other brands: Coleman, Thor,…
Looked up sales numbers (these are overall for RVs. I couldn't find travel trailer specific):
Thor owns Keystone & Jayco and with other brands about 50% of the market
Forest River owns Forest River and Coachmen and with other brands about 33% of the market
Winnebago is about 8% of the market.
REV owns Fleetwood and about 3% of the market with other brands.
Gulf Stream is independent and under 1%.
Add in a bit of buyers bias (people who spend far more for a supposed better brand are less likely to slam that brand), and what you basically have is a survey that largely mimics sales.
I'm betting if you found the actual travel trailer sales, it would match even closer (ie: Winnebago is primarily a MH shop that does a few travel trailers. Keystone & Thor are primarily trailer shops that do a few MHs).
Without compensating for sales numbers and where they are drawing the survey population from, these numbers mean a whole lot of nothing.
