Coach?

[noplace2]

Seriously? It's an RV!

[JaxDad]

noplace2 wrote:

fj12ryder wrote:
It's pretentious

THERE'S the word I was looking for! :B

Why would calling what it is be pretentious?

It was a "coach" long before anybody even ever thought of the term 'recreational vehicle' was even thought of.

BTW, I'm told the first person to popularize the term 'coach' for what we now know as a Motorhome was a guy who liked to travel around camping with his friends in a truck converted to a camping outfit he called a "motor coach".

His name was Henry Ford, probably not someone you'd call pretentious.

[noplace2]

fj12ryder wrote:
It's pretentious

THERE'S the word I was looking for! :B

[navegator]

I live in a 22 foot "C O A C H" men motor home, granted it is a class C but it has my bed, my bathroom, my galley, my cabin-lounge an mess-hall and even has an upper level.

I live in a COACH!

navegator

[westend]

I guess Merriam and Webster don't know what a sports team leader is?

[dan-nickie]

noplace2 wrote:
Seriously? It's an RV!

You know exactly what we mean when we call our rig a Coach.

I've never had to explain it.

It's not a trailer. It's not a fifth wheel. It's a large class A motorhome.

[Dutch_12078]

Lauren wrote:
Hay, I have accessory dealers, repair shops and the like call my 5th wheel a coach. Go figger. At least they cannot call it a motorhome.

Way back in the 1920's and 30's, the term "trailer coach" was commonly used, including by upstarts like a little company named "Airstream". :B

[Lauren]

Hay, I have accessory dealers, repair shops and the like call my 5th wheel a coach. Go figger. At least they cannot call it a motorhome.

[Dutch_12078]

noplace2 wrote:


You can call it whatever you want. Call it Wanda. It's still an RV whether it's 5K or 1M!

From the MW dictionary:

a. A motorbus.
b. A railroad passenger car.
c. A closed automobile, usually with two doors.
d. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage with an elevated exterior seat for the driver; a stagecoach.
2. An economical class of passenger accommodations on a commercial airplane or a train.

Maybe you should call up Coachmen RV and explain it to them... :R

On edit: Explain it to the Family Motor Coach Association (FMCA) as well, along with the numerous manufacturers that use "coach" in their brand or model names.

And by the way the NHTSA classifies my motorhome as a "Multipurpose Passenger Vehicle", and it does have two doors, so it appears the MW definition "c" could apply.

[fj12ryder]

It's pretentious, but at least when they call it a coach you can figure it's a motorized RV and not a trailer.

[camper19709]

hummmmm
I see no problem calling the motorhome that I live in a coach.

[noplace2]

Golden_HVAC wrote:
When it is $400,000 new, it can be called a coach!

Fred.

From the MW dictionary:

a. A motorbus.
b. A railroad passenger car.
c. A closed automobile, usually with two doors.
d. A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage with an elevated exterior seat for the driver; a stagecoach.
2. An economical class of passenger accommodations on a commercial airplane or a train.

[Golden_HVAC]

When it is $400,000 new, it can be called a coach!

Fred.