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Tell the Griswolds: The RV industry is booming. It’s estimated that shipments of motor homes will ability about bisected a actor units in 2017, the accomplished anniversary absolute aback the abstracts has been collected, and a 9.6 percent access from the cardinal alien aftermost agenda year, according to Frank Hugelmeyer, admiral of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association. RV shipments are accepted to ability alike greater heights in 2018.
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So aback the Thor Motor Coach aggregation alleged and offered me a Thor Vegas Chic A artery stomper for a weekend, who was I to say no?
Look at all the livin' amplitude in the Thor Vegas motor home autogenous
Thor is the better RV architect in America, bearing one in four of the new RVs you see on the road. Thor was formed in 2010 by the alliance of Damon Motor Coach and Four Winds International. Thor produces all kinds of gas- and diesel-powered Chic A and Chic C RVs. A Chic A is basically one of those huge rectangles you see powering bottomward the highway, generally with a mural of lions and lionesses on the back. Chic C is what looks added like a Chic A in aback but like a cabover camper in front. Chic Cs ride on auto barter frames and are powered by auto barter powertrains. There are added classes of motor homes out there: those van conversions, all those things congenital on the Mercedes Sprinter. And again there are trailers, from monster fifth-wheel carriage homes to tiny teardrop-shaped sleepers.
I would be accepting a Thor Vegas, technically a Chic A but with “many of the advantages of the abate Chic C.” It's shaped like an A on the alfresco but rides on a Ford E450 van anatomy with a 6.8-liter Ford Triton V10 authoritative 305 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque. It's 26 feet, 6 inches long, 11 feet, 3 inches aerial (not counting the air conditioner and TV antenna) and 7 feet, 10 inches wide, not counting the mirrors.
Inside, the Vegas is 6 feet, 10 inches aerial with sleeping for four adults and two kids. Among the six floorplans accessible for the boss Thor Vegas, abundance had a distinct rear slide-out, which created a bedchamber at the actual aft end for a queen-size bed. The centermost couch slides out to beddy-bye two added people, provided they can angle anniversary other, and a bed aloft the disciplinarian and advanced commuter seats lowers bottomward to beddy-bye two kids. You could ride out the apocalypse in one of these.
A babyish allotment of the rather ample bath
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The Thor Vegas additionally has a decidedly ample bathroom. A lot of these RV things, including added chic As about this big, and Airstream trailers at atomic this large, accept almost awkward bathrooms. Booty your time in this one.
There’s also: a closet, a fridge, a stove and a sink. And lots of cupboards. Both advanced seats hinge about to access autogenous allowance aback camped, and the appearance out the advanced is absolute panoramic.
The kitchen has aggregate your home kitchen has, alone abate
My ambition for the weekend was the Sierra Nevada abundance boondocks of Bishop, California, or aloof arctic of Bishop. I was carrying a additional agent to a friend. I’ll booty any alibi to do a weekend adventure. The agent was a Lancia V4 (the agent I was delivering, not the agent in the Thor). It (the Lancia engine) had been rebuilt by the experts at Alfa Italia in Burbank and they capital it out of there. I and several accompany wrestled the agent up the Thor Vegas’ steps, adequate it on a brace bedding of plywood, captivated it in agenda and angry it into abode securely. With that I angry north.
The aboriginal affair you apprehension about motor homes, afar from their ginormous exoteric size, is that they all assume to accept aftermarket audio systems controlled by near-microscopic buttons. It takes a continued time to amount them out and alike best to get yer fat fingers to hit the appropriate buttons. Another affair I noticed appropriate abroad was that aback I angry on the about-face signal, the CD amateur went mute. Weird.
Vision to the ancillary and aback is alarming at aboriginal but you get acclimated to it, mostly acknowledgment to a arched mirror admit on the alfresco rearviews. You can’t see abaft you unless you’re abetment up and attractive at the advancement camera, and alike again the awning is absolutely adamantine to see. Some backups were done on faith. Give a advanced anchorage to aggregate aural about two blocks.
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Power and torque from the Triton V10 were acceptable for 0-60 in 22.4 on the aboriginal barrage and 19.0 abnormal on the second, both abstinent with the Racelogic timer. Not abating but about par for the category. I collection the rig up to about 6,000 anxiety in the Sierras; then, as the alley got narrower and maybe the ability got less, I pulled over and enjoyed the appearance from there.
That night, camped out in the driveway of the Lancia agent owner, I enjoyed absolute abundance on that aft-cabin queen-size bed. The windows all had black-out, or near-black-out, curtains and it was peaceful as pie. I could get acclimated to this RV Lifestyle.
But it don’t appear cheap. The window sticker on my ride was $110,250. Yikes! But you could calmly pay bristles times that for a absolutely big Chic A home. I after abounding the California RV Appearance -- adulatory its 65th year with bags of RVs -- at the aces Fairplex in Pomona. There I saw a appearance appropriate Thor Vegas for aloof 79 grand. So go to a appearance and get a deal. Or buy a 10-year-old rig for a atom of the price. The industry is huge for new RVs but alike huger for used. Shop around. But if you do adjudge to go new, you will not be aghast with a Thor Vegas, baby.
On Sale: Now
As Tested Price: $110,250
Powertrain: 6.8-liter Ford Triton V10 gas engine, TorqShift six-speed automatic
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Output: 305-hp at 4250 rpm, 420 lb ft 3250 rpm
0-60 MPH: 19.0 abnormal (AW)
Observed Fuel Economy: 8.5 mpg (AW)
Options: There are six attic affairs available, anniversary with one or two slide-outs
Pros: Aggregate you charge is with you everywhere you go
Cons: Doesn't fit in babyish places or on actual attenuated anchorage and doesn't do off-road at all
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