Record RV Manufacturing and What It Means For The Future

Above, The Beast at Crazy Horse Campground Thanksgiving week. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

The RV industry is currently in a boom.

 RV Travel has posted an article on record shipments of RVs to dealers. But there's one problem.

To see that it is and what it means for RVing in the future, they start with:

The news out of the RV industry continues to be a bit, well, confusing.

The RV Industry Association announced last week that 2021 would be the year RV manufacturers set an all-time record for factory shipments to dealers and RVers around the country.

RV makers managed to crank out another 57,971 units in October, an increase of 22.5 percent compared to October 2022 [I think they meant 2020. - A]. This October also set an all-time one-month record for shipments by more than 18 percent.

October’s performance already makes 2021 the best year ever for factory shipments, and there are still two months to go.

So, all is right again in the world of RVing, right? Hardly. While the RV Industry Association touts the numbers – and they are quite impressive – they don’t mention in their press releases that all of those RVs going out the factory doors are already spoken for and aren’t available to anyone who hasn’t already plunked down their deposit money.

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