Best Quality Motor Homes
Not taking in account price, what are the best quality motor homes out there? Which are the worst? Class A - Gasoline only and not buses Class B Class C Vans I am willing to invest mor...
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Bruce Brown wrote:irishtom29 wrote:
Objectively in a class A gasser Tiffin has the best bones---heavier chassis, longer wheelbase than the competition, including Newmar. Newmar comes next, them Winnebago.
Wheelbase aside, let's talk wet bays and blowing off roofs, as well as delamination. On the wheelbase issue, taken from each mfgs web sites, the longest Tiffin gasser has a .553 ratio, the longest Newmar has a .543 to .555, so that's about a wash. The longest Winnie has a .534 ratio, worst of the bunch.
In the gas world, as far as I know, only Newmar and the Monaco twins aren't laminated. Structurally I'm a big fan of hung wall construction and me, personally, wouldn't own a laminated unit - but that's just me. As always, others will have differing opinions.
Going through all three outfits I named entire gas line ups (as I did when researching buying our RV) you'll see that Tiffin often has the longest wheelbase and heaviest chassis for a given size. For instance in a 34 footer Tiffin has the only rig on the 24,000 pound chassis and at 228" the longest wheelbase.
I was aware of Newmar's wall construction methods when buying our coach but I favored the Tiffin's heavier chassis and longer wheelbase more than Newmar's walls. Pick your poison.
