Jim, "If I agreed with you, then we'd _both_ be wrong."
Concerning my "wrong" post, it might be more beneficial to the others if you'd address the points I bring up in response to legitimate questions, especially this from the OP.
OP wrote: OK, I was debating this over the 4th, so I started reading about the definition of a Class C Motorhome (Definition of What is a Class C Motorhome) and it looks like a B+ Motorhome is really just a Class C without the overhead cab, making it more aerodynamic? Am I correct, or am I missing something here?
Is B+ a consumer term or is it officially a class of motorhome set by whoever officially sets these standards?
Jim, "If I agreed with you, then we'd _both_ be wrong."
Concerning my "wrong" post, it might be more beneficial to the others if you'd address the points I bring up in response to legitimate questions, especially this from the OP.
OP wrote: OK, I was debating this over the 4th, so I started reading about the definition of a Class C Motorhome (Definition of What is a Class C Motorhome) and it looks like a B+ Motorhome is really just a Class C without the overhead cab, making it more aerodynamic? Am I correct, or am I missing something here?
Is B+ a consumer term or is it officially a class of motorhome set by whoever officially sets these standards?
Thanks.
I beleive B+ is a Consumer Term. I could be wrong.
So, if you took a Teardrop Trailer, and put it inside a B+/C, and then took that B+/C and shoved it into a Class A, would that be like an RV TurDucHen ?
Just sayin.
Hope2BRVn wrote: So, if you took a Teardrop Trailer, and put it inside a B+/C, and then took that B+/C and shoved it into a Class A, would that be like an RV TurDucHen ?
Just sayin.
As I was reading I thought of turduchen before I got to the word in your post! Displaced cajun, maybe?
The Roadtrek 200 is a Class C, started out as a cut-away chassis. 10th picture down.
It was the only one Roadtrek made on a cut-away chassis, and was discontinued several years ago.
The PW, 9th picture down is a Class B, started out as a vn.
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I'll have to go with the 'marketing term' response. If you remember to look at what a 'B' was, (converted van), a B+ would be a High Top Van or extended Van.
So if you are going to use a 'cutaway' chassis, you'd logically have to term it as a 'C minus'?
Of course the whole progression is jacked up, because the 'C' used to be a PU with the back of the cab and part of the roof cut out. If you are old enough to remember. This 'C', was a CHASSIS mounted camper, and was for a certain number of years before they started to use vans cutaway and still Chassis mounted the camper.
The whole 'B' thing was just an excuse to charge more, for less, as I recall.
Hoppe
2011 Dodge 1500 C'boy Caddy
2000 Jayco C 28' Ford chassis w V-10 E450
Doghouse 36' or so Trophy Classic TT
Generally roomiest of all RVs
Luxurious amenities
Sleeps up to six
Typically $76,000 to $1,350,000 new
Type B Motorhomes
Commonly called van campers
Drive like the family van
Sleep up to four
Typically $41,000 to $72,660 new
Type C Motorhomes
Similar amenities to Type As
Optional sleeping space over the cab
Sleep up to eight
Typically $48,450 to $298,910 new
AFAIK, they stopped using the word Class because so many arguments occurred along the lines of 'My Class A is by definition superior to other classes." FMCA has fully adopted the term 'Type' in their literature.
But despite mumkin’s post, there’s a BIG change clear as day when reading the criteria above: there is NO mention of what style chassis any of the Types has to be constructed on. But everyone still uses truck chassis as the delimiter, thus ignoring and so misrepresenting RVIA's official criteria.
It is as though RVIA hopes to encourage a variety of MH ‘categories’ given their broad and non-detailed criteria. No black and white boundaries – like crossovers evolving out of SUVs.
If RVIA thought B+ to be a detriment to the industry, they would have acted to stop it long ago.
True, there is no Type B+ up there, but no one ever said it was an official
separate category defined by the industry standard setter. There are super Cs, Cs, mini-motorhomes, low-profiles, B+s, toy haulers, etc., all in the Type C camp, many of which arguably could match the Type A or B criteria nicely.
Just like there are As, bus conversions, DPs, and FreDs in the Type A bunch (could the Via be all three types?). Van campers, Bs, hi-tops, expanded-box, conversions - all Type Bs, many meeting the criteria of Type A and C.
So if a manufacturer wants to label their MH as B+s, and dealers market their rigs as B+s, as long as they look something like the photos linked in my previous post, I think they are on solid ground to do so, and they are merely following RVIA’s lead in photo IDs.
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