Date:         Sat, 16 Feb 2013 11:06:13 -0800
Reply-To:     Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday Philosophy: On Community
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Pricing is on the PDF specification download.  Pre-VAT price for the base model is about 30,000 pounds, much less than the VW California at 37,000 pounds.  You are right about the US conversions, but Americans seem to want all this stuff.   I think a reasonable conversion could be done for $10k to $15k over the price of the vehicle, and an "empty" Transit chassis should be in the $20s, maybe low $30s with options.

We'll see.

Stuart

> If not, maybe the future Ford Transit conversions will be sensible:
> http://westfalia-ford.co.uk/elevated%20roof/index.html  $46,000 base 
> price in Britain. I wonder what Sportsmobile or Roadtrek would charge for theirs.

Where did you get that price?  If I could buy one of these in the U.S. for that price today, I'd do it immediately.  mcneely But of course, the converters you mentioned would not produce the same camper.  They could be doing so on the chassis they build on today, but they don't.  They put everything imaginable beyond reasonable into them, including building slide-out rooms into Sprinter bodies.

Good grief!!
David McNeely