Jay Flight vs. Jay Flight Swift

BillB800si wrote:

waynec1957 wrote:
Jayco has been around a long time and Jay Flight has been the number one selling line of TTs for the past 8 years, so if there is something inherently wrong with their production process they've fooled a lot of people. As far as I know, every manufacturer out there builds travel trailers on an assembly line...nobody (that I know of) builds them one at a time from the ground up.As far as the materials used in construction (wood, aluminum, fiberglass, whatever) there are pros and cons for all of them. One of the big factors is cost. Just doing a quick search of RV Trader, for about the same price of 20' 2014 LANCE 1685 Travel Trailer I can buy the 35', Jay Flight 33 RLDS (the one we've settled on). AND, if I do the maintenance, this Jay Flight will outlast me.

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That Jay Flight 33 RLDS looks very similar to our Cougar HC 321RES floorplan. I love the opposing living room slide outs. Really makes a world of difference. And the rear window with the slide up TV is a nice idea. When we traded in our 2007 Jayco Eagle 322FKS for our 2014 Cougar I was looking for a floorplan that Jayco had discontinued in 2012 so we went with the Cougar instead.
Nice trailer,
Happy trails,.

Yes, it is real similar. That Cougar is a nice camper too. It looks a lot like the Jayco Eagle 338 RETS with the smooth sides and bed in the front slide. I like that. We looked real hard at the 338 RETS but it’s 40', another 1,000 lbs heavier, plus $10-15k more expensive than the 33 RLDS. I didn’t want to go over 35’ because that’s going to be hard enough to get into some state parks we like and $10-15k will buy a lot of diesel fuel to pull it with.

Those huge opposing slides are what attracted us to it in the first place but we're having a hard time finding one without the fireplace so we can have the large rear window. Probably end up ordering one.