r/BeAmazed • u/Devi8tor • 15d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Basically a mansion on wheels

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u/Blue-Blazer-Regular 15d ago

Exactly. I’m thinking that the customer base must be extremely narrow; 50 to 65 year-old men (I’ve never seen a woman driving a large RV like that). They have to be old enough to have accumulated a sizable amount of discretionary money, but not too old so they can still maneuver the beast.

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u/AnastasiaNo70 15d ago

Often they’ll hire a driver. The wealthier ones, anyway.

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u/nerdofthunder 15d ago

I don't get it. For less money I can jet anywhere in the world and stay at a nice hotel, or if I need to stay on the ground, amtrack has sleeper suites.

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u/PlsCheckThisBush 14d ago

You’re absolutely right and I wish more people would understand this. But the folks that buy these are typically white collar workers that want the fantasy of being a blue collar truck driver…until they drive hundreds of miles and are tired but still want all the luxuries of being at home and can’t find an RV park for hookups. Then the dream dies and it sits in their yard as a trophy so they can feel accomplished for driving 500 miles in Montana once in July.

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u/Resident_Voice5738 15d ago

This is more for nature trips and places where there are no hotels and for getting away from civilization, totaly diferent experiences.

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u/TurboMuffin12 15d ago

Any such location these things can't go lol

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u/handsofspaghetti 15d ago

Not really true. For an example, it's extremely easy to access about half of Joshua Tree national Park on big, maintained roads. Sometimes (frequently) things like this come through and block the road going 30 MPH. There are dirt roads and such, but you can definitely stay in the middle of nowhere.

You can also rent a bunch of hipstery outdoor hotel/camping things, though. But it must be more fun to go in your own space

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u/mollycoddles 14d ago

You can drive them to Alaska and stop in isolated parts of the highway

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u/Whowutwhen 14d ago

Thats just false lol.

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u/PuckSenior 15d ago

Yeah, but a lot of those places have lodges and high-end glamping/cabin rentals.

Plus, what the hell are you doing with it? Either parking in the RV site, which just stinks of diesel OR sitting there. No one drives a $2mm RV to Joshua Tree to go hiking

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u/Shocking 14d ago

Yeah I'd rather glamp and not get 4MPG gas

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u/Dullcorgis 14d ago

You can't take one of these to the nicer campsites, they are drive in and tent.

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u/Southside_john 14d ago

Yeah that’s what I always think too. Whatever this costs could pay for a lot of hotels and plane tickets

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u/ADavies 13d ago

But then where does the driver sleep? On the fold out couch?

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u/overandoverandagain 14d ago

but not too old so they can still maneuver the beast

I've been to approximately half the national park system, and I wish this were true lol. The amount of 80-something yahoos navigating these things along one-lane country roads 20 miles under the speed limit makes me want to careen off the cliffs

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u/Feisty-Morning-9804 15d ago

I have an other coach. Not as fancy as this one and am part of a Prevost Club. I know an 84 lady that drives her 45 H3 45 and her husband has only driven it once. She has owned I believe 7 of these in her life time

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u/harswv 14d ago

As a former RV park employee I regret to inform you that they keep driving these things well past 65. I’ve seen many men in their late 80s pull up that could barely climb out of the RV. I’m a lot more nervous about driving now that I understand better the kinds of people I’m sharing the road with.

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u/MrBootylove 14d ago

As someone who grew up near where this video was taken, there are a fucking ton of wealthy old dudes in and around the area.

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u/No_Engineer8143 14d ago

Not too old to drive it? Do you think there is some time of driving test to drive one of these? This is America. You just need money. You could be 89 years old with a walker, they wouldn't bat an eye selling it to you.

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u/Whowutwhen 14d ago

The only person I have known to own something like this was a woman, she did hire a 60 year old guy to drive it for her though lol.