Viking TTs compared to Jayco
Brand new to the site and am excited to learn more. I am going to be purchasing one of two trailers: a Viking 17BH or a Jayco Jay Flight Swift SLX 184BH. I like the features on the Viking much more ...
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I think you are maybe not finding user reviews because the use of the Viking and Clipper brands on travel trailers is new? Applied to a product that is new this model year?
Before Coachmen was acquired by Forest River, the Viking brand and Clipper brand were applied to folding camping trailers. As TTs, they could be a new Coachmen product, or a F-R product marketed using a Coachmen brand.
I am surprised that any company is trying to sell a travel trailer in Florida that does not have an air conditioning option.
Both brands, Jayflight Swift and Clipper/Viking are lightly constructed stick-built travel trailers, something fairly new to the market. Until recently, most lightweights had been the more costly laminated wall construction. Exceptions I know about would include Gulfstream's stick-built Amerilite (at least 10 years experience but not so light these newer offerings) and Sun Valley's Road Runner, which may not be in production now, as Evergreen is now using Sun Valley as a brand.
Many times in the RV industry, when a company closes down, the assets they can sell are the brand names, which get used by the buyer on a different product.
Before Coachmen was acquired by Forest River, the Viking brand and Clipper brand were applied to folding camping trailers. As TTs, they could be a new Coachmen product, or a F-R product marketed using a Coachmen brand.
I am surprised that any company is trying to sell a travel trailer in Florida that does not have an air conditioning option.
Both brands, Jayflight Swift and Clipper/Viking are lightly constructed stick-built travel trailers, something fairly new to the market. Until recently, most lightweights had been the more costly laminated wall construction. Exceptions I know about would include Gulfstream's stick-built Amerilite (at least 10 years experience but not so light these newer offerings) and Sun Valley's Road Runner, which may not be in production now, as Evergreen is now using Sun Valley as a brand.
Many times in the RV industry, when a company closes down, the assets they can sell are the brand names, which get used by the buyer on a different product.
