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RV HAVING FUN YET? A sports-car fan discovers the pleasures of a road trip.(News)
Byline: CORY FARLEY
One trip in a motor home can't make a sports-car guy wish for an RV in his garage. But it can make him wish for one next door, with a generous owner.
Winnebago, General Motors and Blue Ox, a maker of towing devices, introduced us to the world of KOAs, crosswinds and 60-mph cruising. On the Vegas Strip, we hooked up with a 2008 Winnebago Outlook 31C. That hooked up to a Blue Ox tow bar, which hooked up to a Chevy HHR Panel (page 22).
The Outlook, a Class C RV, perches on a "cutaway'' van chassis, in this case a 14,050 GVWR Chevy-Workhorse. Class C's are 21 to 35 feet long and sleep four to six. Luxury levels vary; ours had satellite TV, a push-button slide-out that created an extra room and a microwave/convection oven sufficient unto Thanksgiving, each contributing to the $91,807 price (base is $78,361).
Chevy's share of the cutaway market rose from 9.6 percent to 19.9 percent last year, thanks to a partnership with Workhorse Custom Chassis. One reason is the user-friendly design: Filler necks and dipsticks cluster at the front of the engine, and a built-in bumper step allows bug removal from the lofty windshield with a short-handled squeegee.
It's intimidating for a novice: 50 feet long with the HHR, just shy of 12,000 pounds without it. Lugging 57 gallons of gas and 42 of water, it's thrice the weight and length of our daily driver.
Yet on the road, it was not awful, higher praise than it seems. We expected to hate it for its excessive consumption and ...
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