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Re: Changes at Country Coach

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On 12/3/2015 4:21 PM, David Glen dmglen@... [Country-Coach-Owners] wrote:

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> Actually, current Monaco's and HR's are rebranded Fleetwood products. And, quality is comparably bad. I really doubt that Winnebago will worry about a high end niche brand like CC....they make their money on volume (with better than average quality in my opinion). What they wanted was relatively cheap land, access to experienced labor, and perhaps reduced cost of shipping product to the west coast. The intellectual property...maybe not so much.
 > Hope I'm wrong. I'd love to be able to think of buying a 201x CC at some time in the future with confidence that it would have the quality of our current coaches.

Dave Glen

'06 Magna 6591

I have to put in with this argument. This is America, after all, where if quality is not quantifiable, it is worthless.

Ken, 2004 Allure #31035

I hope we all realize that we got in on a magnificent segment of RV history by buying our CCs (note the absence of an apostrophe) when we did.

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Horus also was not divine.
 

Re: Changes at Country Coach

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Yahoo Message Number: 104046
If any of you are familiar with the Hifi industry you know the name of Mcintosh Labs. They have had their trials and tribulations, too. They are a High end product with a more envious position and history than CC had ever hoped for. Founded after WWII They were bought out by Clarion a Japanese company in the 90's , sold to a conglomerate, including Marantz, and Denon in the 2000's and are now belong to a European group from Italy., including Sonus and Audio research. Each time there was a change there was fear of no more support or service or new products, but with all the trials and tribulations Mcintosh has come out stronger with more superior products with each evolution. But there is a difference. Mcintosh in each case has had a strong personable leader in Binghamton, New York, who not only has a strong engineering and design back ground, but good business since. Mac had their technical issues always being one step behind the Japanese in Home Theatre development, but like Apple they would rather do it right than try to lead with compromised designs. They have never built the most expensive products, but the best products for the long hall. Amplifiers that cost $444.00 back in the 60's are now worth $10,000. Even though the current versions can be bought for $4000.00 preowned with superior specifications and sound quality. We should be so lucky without CC's. All the Mac original units, unless for display only, have to be almost totally rebuilt with new resistors, capacitors and occasionally transformers. Tubes like tires and belts are always in need of replacement. And imagine building a product where you have to depend on limited production from the Chinese and Russians for tubes.

So there can be a success story out there, its happening right now. Its a shame there wasn't someone like Doug Rutherford, Jim Cooley or Pat Mason, to step in before the Howards came along to continue the chain of leadership that Mcintosh has been able to keep with Charlie Randall. TWI 2004 Intrigue. 11731