All--
Just happened to be in France for a vacation right now and with August being the "holiday" month... there is very high ration of caravans (what us Yanks would call trailers) to cars on the road. I've been checking the local RV parks as we go by and a crude tally of on-road trailers... and while their are *lots* of SOBs (I've seen several hundreds) ... there have been zero Airsteams (or any other shiny aluminum varient) to date.
With the popularity of caravans in France and French obsession with style, I'm surprised there has not been an invasion of the mighty Airstream. Now I'm sure there is some import restriction of or somthing to make it more complicated... but it is a shame.