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Today’s video comes from Winnebago Industries Inc. offering an overview of the manufacturer’s View and Navion Class C motorhomes built on Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis. To view the video click here or scroll to the right side of the RVBUSINESS.com home page.

The Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA) and National Association of Trailer Manufacturers (NATM) will host a free webinar presented by the National Highway Traffic Safety Association (NHTSA) on Jan. 15 at 2 p.m. EST. The webinar will be conducted by Bruce York, NHTSA division chief, medium and heavy duty vehicles division; Safety Defect Investigator Nate Seymour; […]

Ford Motor Co.’s new Transit is wasting no time replacing the automaker’s E-Series as the nation’s best-selling full-size cargo van. The Detroit News reported that more than 4,800 Transits were purchased in November as the van outsold the venerable E-Series, the Chevrolet Express and all other competitors for the first time. Since its June launch, […]

Elkhart Ind.-based ASA Electronics has added Courtland Jones as project engineer to its rapidly expanding engineering team. The company reported in a press release that nJones will be responsible for assisting with all aspects of the product development process including project management, product design, sample evaluation, testing and reporting as well as maintaining thorough documentation of products […]

Today’s video comes from Red Bay, Ala.-based Tiffin Motorhomes Inc. the next installment in the company’s “A Closer Look” series detailing the variety of floorplans offered in its luxury coach lines. To view the video click here or scroll to the right side of the RVBUSINESS.com home page.

Long before there was a “tiny house movement,” there were tiny houses — on wheels and covered in tin. And if it’s covered in tin, Scott Hendricks is in. The Union-Bulletin reported that Hendricks — semiretired rancher, former winery consultant and a founding member of Seven Hills Vineyard in Walla Walla, Wash., can count six […]

Bob Wheeler still gets the question sometimes when people find out he runs the company that builds those shiny aluminum campers: “Airstreams? They still make those?” Not only are the retro-looking “silver bullet” travel-trailers still being built by hand at the same western Ohio site that has produced them for 60 years, but the company […]

Recreational boating, one of the last industries to recover from the financial crisis, rebounded strongly in South Florida during the past year and stands poised to make up even more lost ground in 2015. The Sun-Sentinel reported that all segments of South Florida’s hefty marine industry are picking up — from the $500,000 to $850,000 boats […]

Wholesale shipments of all RVs continued to roll in November with manufacturers reporting totals of 26,301 units, an increase a 20.9% gain over November one year ago. This was the strongest November total since 2005 and was the 35th consecutive monthly improvement dating back to January of 2012. Seasonally adjusted, November’s totals soared to an annualized rate […]

The owners of RV manufacturer Grand Design RV Co. never could have imagined how fast their company would grow. The South Bend Tribune reported that the soon to be two-year-old company recently announced a $6.9 million expansion on 48.8 acres just south of its current 67-acre campus in Middlebury, Ind.. Over the next few years, […]