Cool RV

tlaloc · Post by **tlaloc** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:12 am

My girlfriend just sent me this link. I've been trying to figure out how to convince her to at least try living in an RV. She said she might do something like what's in this album. The first thing I thought was zombie attack, but whatever

Enjoy: http://imgur.com/a/tESq5/mobile_home_reddit
and the reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/f ... en_i_want/

Post by **jacob** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:41 am

I suppose what's cool about it is the zombie attack factor akin to how a lifted truck with lots of headlights and big fenders is "cool" ;-P
The interior of this one is actually fairly similar to a new(*) class C RV with no slide outs. The class C won't have as high a ceiling, however, high ceilings are going to be very expensive in the winter although you may appreciate them in the summer.
(*) As you're probably aware, design changes every decade or so. Our RV being from 1991 has en interior representative of that era.

tlaloc · Post by **tlaloc** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:11 am

I thought about changing "cool" to "awesome," just for added effect

I did not realize this was a mainstream "design language" (or whatever one might call it) for the interior. Most of what I know about RVs are from 80s and 90s, and I know that part of my girlfriends' hangups around RVs are related to the interior design of the vehicles she's seen. I might have to actually take a real look at RVs made in the last few years.

Post by **jacob** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:35 am

The mentality in the RV world is that if you have enough money, you can have it (re)designed any way you want. What's the particular hangup?

tlaloc · Post by **tlaloc** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:46 am

generally, a laundry list, but specifically, aversion to the unknown

I think that the biggest thing is that I haven't actually critically thought about the real possibility of living in an RV yet, which means that she hasn't had to. It wouldn't be feasible for a while since it would be a significant capital expenditure. Once i hit a certain dollar net worth (unknown so far), I'll have the mental bandwidth to start exploring "alternative" housing arrangements; but, for now, I'm mostly happy with renting so I haven't had to try to convince her of anything besides the occasional jibe, which results in half-hearted dodges.

AlexOliver · Post by **AlexOliver** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 5:54 am

I love that garbage truck RV. Except it's $500k+.

dragoncar · Post by **dragoncar** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 7:18 am

Note that this thing does have a slide-out. It just slides up instead of sideways.

KevinW · Post by **KevinW** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 8:25 am

I like the interior on the Airstream Interstate. I'm not sure it would be liveable though.

EMJ · Post by **EMJ** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 6:11 pm

The interior and exterior of the pics don't match. Where are the big window and the bedroom areas located in the exterior views?

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 10:52 pm

@AlexOliver: Truth be told, it's not remodeled off from a garbage truck, but is a design of RV made in Australia(?).
@EMJ: When the exterior is extended upward, the large windows are exposed; that's the reason why the pictures do not coincide.

dragoncar · Post by **dragoncar** » Fri Jan 21, 2011 11:45 pm

Rex: Actually, you are wrong about the windows. The interior of the RV is actually a hypercube, and the windows are located in a dimension not visible from the outside.

Bakari · Post by **Bakari** » Sat Jan 22, 2011 2:21 pm

When I was shopping for mine I found a pretty big variety of layouts and designs even with in a particular era, based on class and cost and manufacturer.

I went to a lot of tradeshows and new and used dealerships, browsed websites, and asked people who owned RVs if I could look inside. I had no intention of buying any of them. I just wanted to get an idea of what my options were. There are a lot of options.

The first RV I lived in full time (with my partner and two cat-) only cost $2500 (and was about the size of the garbage truck RV), and it served us well for about 3 years before upgrading to something newer and bigger.

Bakari · Post by **Bakari** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:02 am

@tlaloc

I'm curios about the laundry list

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:23 pm

@Dragoncar: That definitely received a chuckle. You know, it would be interesting living in a hypercube, but I believe it would be trippy, to say the least. Plus, then you have the various b-movie SciFi channel movies with deadly hypercubes, et cetera. >.>

Bakari · Post by **Bakari** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 7:21 pm

As long as we are looking at impractical but cool RVs that cost too much to really be ERE:
http://www.andersonmobileestates.com/photos.html
1200 square feet of pure mobile decadence.