Best Quality Travel Trailers
Is there such a thing? Is the RV industry capable of delivering such a product with the same construction practices, materials, and appliances? If the answer is “No”, is it reasonable to find what o...
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A 10-15/year old Airstream is better than other trailers when they’re brand-new.
Depreciation done. “Might” need cosmetic upgrades.
Use the savings for a 3P hitch and anti-lock disc brakes.
Airstream was the entry-level choice at the premium end. The other builders lost their buyers as Americans took a 55% pay cut since 1971. AS was best aero design and had fully independent suspension. Marketing genius founder (died 1963).
Other trailers aren’t comparable per design & construction. Not in road performance, longevity, or overall quality.
My parents bought theirs new and kept it thirty years. It’s still on the road. Mines 31-years old this year (different brand than AS).
1). How long will you keep it?
2). How far will you travel?
The average RV’er owns it 5-years and travels 60k miles.
It’s not by accident design life on a box is 8/80.
An AS is 250k before re-build and lifespan is indefinite.
“Room indoors” just means more to clean and more to heat & cool. For the rest of us — where camping isn’t driving somewhere to watch TV in nicer weather — space utilization was perfected almost 60-years ago. We have an unmatched view of the outdoors.
Being outdoors is rather the point.
.
Depreciation done. “Might” need cosmetic upgrades.
Use the savings for a 3P hitch and anti-lock disc brakes.
Airstream was the entry-level choice at the premium end. The other builders lost their buyers as Americans took a 55% pay cut since 1971. AS was best aero design and had fully independent suspension. Marketing genius founder (died 1963).
Other trailers aren’t comparable per design & construction. Not in road performance, longevity, or overall quality.
My parents bought theirs new and kept it thirty years. It’s still on the road. Mines 31-years old this year (different brand than AS).
1). How long will you keep it?
2). How far will you travel?
The average RV’er owns it 5-years and travels 60k miles.
It’s not by accident design life on a box is 8/80.
An AS is 250k before re-build and lifespan is indefinite.
“Room indoors” just means more to clean and more to heat & cool. For the rest of us — where camping isn’t driving somewhere to watch TV in nicer weather — space utilization was perfected almost 60-years ago. We have an unmatched view of the outdoors.
Being outdoors is rather the point.
.
