Thanks for all your advice guys! I looked at the links you sent and it's good to see there are options. It basically seems like there's three types of toy haulers that can be used with long toys:
1. The kind that don't have a separator/wall between the toy area and the living area. Basically the ones where you consider how far it is from the rear-ramp to the kitchen cabinet, or from the rear-ramp to the foot of the mattress 🙂 Many of these seem to have couches/dinettes that fold up flat against the wall. dunesport.com is an example. The nice part about this kind of TH (where your toy is laying in your living room) is that the overall length of the trailer can remain shorter than the divided kinds. This type of TH would probably work just fine for me alone but not so much for the DW 🙂
2. A large car hauler with a simple wall between the garage area and the living area, and some RV furniture screwed down in the living area. Basically, a car hauler primarily and an RV secondarily. The couches/dinettes might not fold against the wall but they aren't luxurious by any means either. The bed in the "bedroom" is either pressed against the back wall or you have to crawl up and on your hands and knees to get around it. For example the Forest River Work and Play 44RLS or some of the divided trailers from milltrailers.com seem to be good examples of these. I was actually able to get the DW to say she wouldn't mind staying in one with me "as long as it made me happy" 🙂
3. A 5th wheel RV with extra space in the back reserved for a garage area with a wall or sliding-glass door separating it off from the rest of the living area. These looks like they are (luxurious) RVs primarily and toy haulers secondarily. The couches are leather, they have solid-surface countertops, and they have well insulated walls and double-pane windows etc with fancy valences and all that jazz). They have actual bedrooms (that you can stand up in) and closets for clothes and such. The Cyclone 4018 and the Voltage 3818 are examples of these. The DW said she would be begging me to take her places in one of these.
Personally I'm in agreement with the DW on this one and I'm going to try go to with #3. The Work and Play 44RLS would have been fine but I am going to be spending a lot of time in it down south in the summer and I'm worried about the lack of insulation (quality too?) and I want the air conditioning to be as efficient as possible since I'm going to be dry camping mostly. Between the Cyclone and the Voltage I like the Cyclone's floor plan a little better, and from reading forums it sounds like the Cyclone's quality is better than Voltage, but the Cyclone 4018 only lists its garage as a 17.5' garage whereas the Voltage 3818 lists its as an 18' garage. Otherwise they're almost identical. I'm hoping I can squeeze my toy in the Cyclone (maybe diagonally or something) and am waiting to hear back on more precise measurements...
Anyway thanks again for all the pointers and I hope someone else finds this information useful.
