Blow enough smoke and you have a smoke screen. They'll walk away with a couple million if they can sell enough to people that don't know the differce between a wheel nut and a flare nut.
My buddy fell into the smoke around Outdoors RV. His matches/exceeds the X22 spec and is falling apart after 3 years off road. If only he spent $75,000!!! on air ride suspension he'd could have had The Best!!!
I’m going to guess small high end RV business is like racing sailboats only profit with RV happens far sooner. By unit 6 you should be making money.
In 2005 the new set of molds for my racing boat cost our owners group 1.5 million to get cut, faired and setup for new production. Thats just tooling to build 5 composite parts that made up the 21ft boat.
The molds if well cared for would make it through about 200 hulls before they start getting problematic.
These Trailers are just laser cut parts stuck together with aluminum extrusions. Material costs are more consistent with the boat business than the RV biz simply because they can switch up materials and still build a box on wheels. My 21foot ultra modern racing boat with carbon mast, keel fin, rudder and, advanced engineered hull and deck skins is between $50,000-$60,0000 built in the USA today. In 2000 same boat was $32,000 to build. Thats built and delivered to the customer, customers cost.
The 27 foot Ocean rates version again super high tech not your typical mass produced hull is $130,000 for the glass and carbon version and close to $200,000 for the full Carbon version. My 1995 racing boat won last years One design championship. It was bought from the 5th owner for $20,000, today its easily $25k if the owner were to sell it. I boutique it in 2001 for $18,000 sold it for $25,000
The mass produced 27 footer closest to ^ that glass/carbon 27ft boat is $97,000- $120,000 new off the dock. The used ones in good condition sell for $60,000-$80,000. That hasn’t really changed in the last 15-18 years.
Again the box on wheels my stuff is gold prices, really don’t add up. The only thing driving this silly pricing is the easy money financing out there. Cheap loans, reverse mortgage on over heated real estate values and crazy high stock market values.
