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Hi Pete,

I sold my M380 so I'm looking for a replacement. We've been looking at Prevosts & Newells. After a whole lot of comparing, I believe a Newell coach is the better deal.

I'd bet your next coach will be a Newell..... You need that '05 at Motorhomes of Texas.........

Hi Chuck,
Congrats on moving the m380. Always good to go shopping! I do like the mid doors myself as well as the circular staircase. I'm starting to have trouble getting in and out of the bird.... bad knees. I'm also not gonna take your bet! Right now when I'm yacking, my American express Black is safe. When I go radio silent for a few months, then Watch out! :-0. I',m stopping out at the factory on our way to the west coast in May and will be test driving some of the 05's they have there and talking to them about structure / assembly/ subsystems of the 05/6 build era. I'm partial to the 05 in Texas and crazy enough I love the floor plan BUT it will be long gone before I'm ready to pull the pin. You could turn that desk into a 2 stool bar in a snap which is what Donna and I truly love out of all the dinette combos and the bed does not bother me. You could yank that aft cabin sofa out and get a sofa bed / love seat with a blowup mattress( like the m450's), this way if you have to use it in a pinch in a Walmart or rest area, use the new blow up sofa bed, slides in! Alas, it will be long gone before I am ready as I need to do too much research yet! Good luck and let us know how you make out! Yeah, agreed, if the factory info pans out, then Newell is my top choice as well for the era I want.

PS Bill, FWIW, I'm no Newell expert, but I'm told those bus basement AC units get the condenser coils dirtier than the top ones due to the vents on the floor etc and really need to be taken apart down to the condenser and cleaned more often....... they get very grimy and sticky...if you have pets, worse......maybe that's your issue??????? Or it needs a shot of freon???????