Spring RV Shopping

Posted by Thomas Alan Gray Apr 11, 2009

Just for fun, we visited Western RV Country in Leduc (one of the Favorite RV Dealers in Western Canada), wanting to see what was new for 2009 models. Not that we're seriously in the market, but it's always fun to walk around an RV lot and dream.

Wayne, the salesman who later showed us around, said that their season has started out well (he was literally running between customer appointments, and there were a dozen people looking at RVs). Certainly there were lots of Sold signs around the lot.

We talked about Fleetwood going to Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and all the Canadian manufacturers who have closed over the past couple of years. "I think it's not a bad thing," said Wayne. "There will be a settling out, a kind of purification in the industry, but the strongest brands will stay around."

We looked at a couple of new "Super C" models, which with three slides and 35' (I think it was) blur the line with Class A. But the best deals seemed to be on 2008 Class A rigs they wanted to get off the lot. We kind of liked a 2008 Windsport...

When we woke up this morning, my wife told me that she'd spent the night packing the new RV, and that she'd bought a new portable BBQ for it. Like I said, it's fun to dream.