So, European highways, at least in my experience tend to be as good, or even better than ours. Yes, gas prices are higher here, and trucks are for hauling goods, not people (as it should be). Bottom line is that they seem to have reasonably priced, high quality well designed smaller trailers, which are really hard to find here. The "family" trailers are either stick and tin garbage, or bloated 30ft+ monsters designed to be towed by large trucks. There are 3 trailers I've found so far that have modern construction (alum frame,, azdel), lightweight and a decent floor plan. Just waiting for the next RV show, since none of the local PNW dealers have them in stock.
Lance 2185, Freedom Express 269 BHS, and Surveyor SP260. Any comments on these? Anything similar? I *really* liked the Nash 25c floor plan, but it's a wood trailer, and about 1000lbs heavier, and a foot higher than it needs to be. Also didn't like the bouncy leaf spring suspension. If only there was a modern version of that floor plan...
RobertRyan wrote:
Eldlr wrote:
Europeans were forced to build like that due to high gas prices, narrow roads, small tow vehicles, etc, etc, etc. We build them big and heavy because we have big roads, long distances, huge tow vehicles and apparently enough wealth to not give a sh*t about the now high gas prices. That and we're a whole lot fatter than they are. The oems build what sells where they are located.
Basically the differences are in cost. The US is much more cost conscious than the Europeans, so the Travel Trailers look more basic but bigger or a lot bigger.If the Fuel Prices were to hit their levels, I think your RV's would be even smaller and more basic then theirs.
Distances towing in Europe varies usually a lot shorter but you do get people towing 1500 miles going from Northern Europe to Southern Europe.
