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Originally Posted by preedtx
I hope both companies can learn from each other.
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I am sure Tiffin will learn a lot. if history means much, Tiffin owners will continue to buy new ones and others will too. The will complain about cheap, junk components and poor workmanship, but they will still buy them. In the 1950's GM made the best production cars in the world. In the following decades the quality and improvements went downhill and yet people still bought the GM cars and trucks. The large tax cuts corporations received a few years ago have meant companies buy up their own stock (thereby increasing the value of stock warrants for CEO's) or they buy other companies (little went to jobs, worker salaries and expansion).
The bosses at Thor will get giant pay and bonuses and other perks. By the time they retire and cash in all their stock, maybe the company will falter, maybe later, maybe sooner, but almost always.
The companies we grew up with are disappearing and being replaced by others. AT&T is just a name owned by Southern Bell, GM and Chrysler went bankrupt and were reconstituted, RCA used to make the best TV's, but now makes low end stuff, GE was a massive company now stripped down (their former small appliance division in Ky. makes poor quality products and is Chinese-owned), and the list goes on. I will never buy an American made appliance again—they break in a few years or maybe last a little longer. A fridge is said by salesmen to last only ten years now, but that is optimistic. Look at the compressors–much smaller than they used to be, so they break down sooner. This is not good and reflects a decline nation.
I understand Newmar makes the best MH. They redo older ones and last time I looked you could get a really nice one for $300K or so—probably sold for $1 M+ or more originally, though all those prices are probably higher now since I looked years ago.