Are they Mad? 1.3 Million?

[Mudstream]

Originally Posted by DKB218NYC

Have they gone nuts? Starting price of a 2021 King Aire is 1.3 million? You can get a great used Prevost or Newell for that.

https://www.newmarcorp.com/luxury-mo...hes/king-aire/

It's simple.

If the customer thinks that's too much, they won't buy one.

Newmar will charge "what the market will bear." They will raise, lower or keep the price the same depending on market demand.

They will make more (to a certain point), the same amount, or less King Aires or stop making them altogether depending on market demand.

[richard5933]

It's really not that much money, all things considered.



Here's what I mean...


Our coach was bought new in 1974. It was a Custom Coach conversion on a brand new shell. Total cost in 1974 was about $225,000.00 which in today's money would be just shy of a million dollars. Not that much different than what that Newmar is priced at today.



It only took me 45 years before I was able to afford it. Not bad, eh?

[Grandpa5x]

They’re all mad if you ask me, they have priced me out I know that.

[Ken Thompson]

It’s too bad that they will be back at dealer getting stuff fixed that should gave been done right before it ever left the factory

[wallynm]

High dollar Winnebago.

Originally Posted by DKB218NYC

Have they gone nuts? Starting price of a 2021 King Aire is 1.3 million? You can get a great used Prevost or Newell for that.

https://www.newmarcorp.com/luxury-mo...hes/king-aire/

[rebelsun]

Originally Posted by Alpine36

That'll buy a nice waterfront home in my neck of the woods, and leave a few hundred thousand in the bank...crazy.

Absolutely!
That was my first thought too. I don't live in a One Million Dollar house, so the chances of my buying a million dollar RV are slim to none....and Slim left town.

[Jaxon]

Originally Posted by Dutch Star Don

...and how do you know a King Aire won't hold it's value.

As compared to a Prevost?

Surely you jest...
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[goldbehen]

It’s all relative. Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post was the equivalent of the average income earner spending $200. Not saying you need to be a billionaire to buy a million dollar motor home but it probably helps. I’m curious what the average net worth is of someone buying a rv/boat in that price range.

[Newseason]

So, tell me - What other country do the commoners get to sit around and philosophize about a $1.3M shack on wheels (King Aire, Prevost or Newell)?! $1.3M!!!!! Amazing!

Blessed - and then some!

[TimmyB]

Originally Posted by Dutch Star Don

...It's all relative, there are people camping in Class A gassers thinking the the DP crowd is crazy, people in trailers who think the Class A gasser crowd is crazy, people in tents who think the trailer crowd is crazy.....seeing a pattern?...

Amen to that, Don. We're in a "lowly" Fleetwood gasser, sitting in a Florida park right next to some of these seven figure rigs, and some travel trailers and fivers, etc. We have what makes US happy; when we are at our Michigan campground, we have SO many people who would LOVE to have what we have, as they have a pop-up or stay in the cabins for a weekend. If it's just a you-know-what contest to see who has the mostest or the bestest, then almost all of us are losers, because there's always someone out there with more than we have. We'll never let it be that to us.

[rebelsun]

Originally Posted by richard5933

It's really not that much money, all things considered.



Here's what I mean...


Our coach was bought new in 1974. It was a Custom Coach conversion on a brand new shell. Total cost in 1974 was about $225,000.00 which in today's money would be just shy of a million dollars. Not that much different than what that Newmar is priced at today.



It only took me 45 years before I was able to afford it. Not bad, eh?

I'll bring this down to it's lowest common denominator....
In 1974 you paid $225,000 for a new RV.
In 1978 I paid $55,000 for my first house. It was a 3BR, 1BA ranch on 3/4 acre of land, and had a two car garage.
There is NO WAY it could have either justified or afforded a $225,000 RV, when what I needed was a home to live in, and raise my young family in.

Conversely, there is NO WAY I could justify owning a One Million Dollar RV, when my Florida retirement home that I paid $65,000 for, and is now worth approximately $250,000. I'm not interested in full-timing in an RV now, or in the past.

[Grandpa5x]

Based on your analogy I should be making $250,000 on SS, but I’m not. My dad was making just under $800 a month in 1976, now 44 years later I’m drawing just under $1400 a month. Seems to be a slight discrepancy between sales prices and income mathematically.

[PorscheLover]

Originally Posted by DKB218NYC

Have they gone nuts? Starting price of a 2021 King Aire is 1.3 million? You can get a great used Prevost or Newell for that.

https://www.newmarcorp.com/luxury-mo...hes/king-aire/

You can buy a great used Prevost for a third of that price. Ask me how I know.

[PorscheLover]

Originally Posted by Tizbad

The Prevost only has 515 hp (Volvo).

Depends on the year. My Prevost has a D60 with similar power.