My pet peeve on Class B Plus
I can understand calling a Class B a plus when it is a VAN with popping out sidewalls. Now a normal parking space sizes. For parallel parking spaces, the standard width is 7.9 feet or 2.4 meters wh...
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studio_driver wrote:
Regarding the older Pleasure-Way Excel, it was delivered at the time from the chassis manufacturer as a Ford E-350 van so it is clearly a Class B, even if part of the body was cut-out and widened by the converter. If it had been delivered as a cab only, it would have been considered a Class C.
There is no need to revise the definitions.
So the end result would essentially be exactly the same in both cases (wheel base might have been a bit different if the cut away chassis used) yet one would be a B and the other way would be a C.
Like the Roadtrek 200 being a C and the Roadtrek 210 being a B, this is confusing and just plain silly.
Definitions should be revised.
I wonder if the RVIA definitions were established to address manufacturing issues and therefor don't always translate as well as they should to the consumer end.
If one ends up with the exact same product, it doesn't make sense to label it as a different class for consumer purposes.
B+ could be dealt with the same way. Oh wait, in practice the retail industry and the consumer has pretty much done that for us whether we like it or not.
Getting with the times would probably reduce confusion.
No such thing as a B+? It's a mirage!
