mileshuff wrote:
... Today's lightest Jayco popup is 1500lbs dry ...
1,265# actually. And those weights are a bit more honest than they once were since such absurdities as "optional" spare tires are now standard equipment included in the base weight.
Granted, that still doesn't include the battery, LP, AC, furnace, etc but you CAN still get the basic light popup of old. It's just that few actually DO. I'm pretty sure a modern Camry 4 banger actually would do a lot better job towing it than a Suzuki with the wheezy 4 cylinder of 20ish years ago!
The poster who cited demographics may have nailed it. The average family of the 50's and 60's had 3-4 kids. Today the average is 1.6 kids. Two less kids dragging down finances and fewer bodies to lay out for sleeping does, perhaps, explain the feature creep and TT trend.
