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- Location
- Midlothian, VA
- RV Year
- 2017
- RV Make
- Newmar
- RV Model
- Ventana 4037
- RV Length
- 40' 10"
- Chassis
- Freightliner XCR
- Engine
- Cummins 400 HP
- TOW/TOAD
- 2017 Chevy Colorado
- Fulltimer
- No
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Funny you should talk about EU. my thoughts are people drive MH because the cost of making a truck a daily driver in all aspects on narrow roads ridicules.I wonder how many class A manufacturers were in 84 compared to now? Also, general quality level of class A's back then compared to now. Just for curiosity. exclude bells and whistles, I wonder, if you could drive one of the lot and how far before you had break downs, back then v now. This aspect of QC comes into play when compared to European class As. To the extent that I am aware, most EU class As can be driven of the lot, just like you might expect driving a Honda of the lot here in US (I exclude UK out of this comparison). If you had typical class As here made available in EU, I'd expect a considerable decline in class A in EU as well.
The median income argument is a bit cloudy, though it has increased. However, the couple decades of irresponsible financial policies of zero interests and lots of money printing, has had an effect of considerable wealth transfer. No, I don't mean the trickle down economy nonsense. its the other way, mass wealth upward. In that sense, the population growth numbers used, 'could' be somewhat misleading.
Although,there has been a great deal of money sloshing around, more so in recent years, the bottom population has lost ground.
According to FED data, 50% of the population has a wealth of some 56k! That, I 'would' imagine, takes that half of the population out of the domain of the class A. So in effect, the population growth presented in the video, though accurate, is very 'likely' a population decrease, when it comes to “the affordable population” who might consider purchasing a class A motorhome.
* I should emphesis, the 'affordable population' the bottom 50% compared to 80s has lost ground
I may be an outlier here but I still want the least expensive price for the same thing with less regard from who it's coming from. If it's something likely to need alot of maintenance or warranty work I can't perform (there's little I've found I can't do), then it's probably something I don't really want that bad anyway. Much of this boils down to quality and what you get (or don't) for your $1.2M.Buying and maintaining a Class A from a dealer who might charge a little more for the coach but stand behind the purchase with outstanding support is a fair deal. Go Brett!