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Old 01-19-2011, 12:23 PM   #1
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China buys RV biz

http://www.rvbusiness.com/2011/01/ch...m-into-mvp-rv/

Bet they don't put Chinamanese tires on it....
 
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Old 01-19-2011, 03:33 PM   #2
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"The 42 foot, 44,000-pound GVWR.....

...."it takes off like a golf cart"

Really, I am...really...trying to wrap my head around this.

I just can't get past my mindset I guess...you know, where the only way 22 tons takes off like a golf cart is over a cliff.

Interesting if this is going to be the "way of the future"...funny they neglected to reveal how many batteries, eh?

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Old 01-19-2011, 04:10 PM   #3
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180 miles on a charge. If that's on a flat road, it will probably go 180 feet up hill. We're gonna need an awful lot of charging stations installed on our interstates.
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Old 01-19-2011, 04:31 PM   #4
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They have to manufacture 20 RVs a day for the next four years to make that goal. Are there that many rich Chinese to purchase 30,000 $1,000,000 RVs? And WE don't have the capability to build charging stations every 180 miles, but the Chinese DO?

So plan on 180 miles, then a 24-hour stop for charging, then another 180 miles, the 24 hours for charging... right.

RV.net has an article here with more details of this fairy tale.

Beam me up, Scotty!
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I'm willing to bet that it will never come to be a reality, not even in a couple of decades. It's nothing more than a pipe dream.
Beam me up also.
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Just proves what I've always said "the world is full of idiots".
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Ozz, RVing just does not seem like an activity the Chinese would embrace.
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Old 01-20-2011, 09:50 AM   #8
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Maybe we are 'Americanizing' them..
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Old 01-20-2011, 04:51 PM   #9
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Ozz, RVing just does not seem like an activity the Chinese would embrace.
That is an interesting comment. Could you share your reasoning? Personally I can't see why ANYONE would not like RVing. Just a thought. Thanks, Dennis
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I think it's an economic reality. These are projected to be extremely expensive vehicles. I doubt many of US would be able to purchase one of these, and I don't think there are that many wealthy Chinese party members to buy all these RVs.
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Yesterday I heard that China is the second largest economy in the world second only to USA. I think that would mean they have a significant amount of discretionary money. Whether they have as many potential RVers as do we is very doubtful. Thank you for the reply. Dennis
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