RVBusiness, November/December 2017
Snell in the big picture describes this as the second stage of Hymers successful play into the North American marketplace I think the German group sees a huge opportunity here in North America he said With 30 of the market share in Europe they are a dominant force and they see North America as a great opportunity The massive investment in this facility tells the world they want to be a dominant player here That is our goal as we get into towable our goal in the Class C business and we even want to get into the Class A business but we want to do it in small lightweight wellengineered well designed products Snell explained the German influence has increased pervasively at the company since the partnership was formed Youll note that theres an automotiveassembly line look to this plant he told the visitors Its modeled after the German form as well You will not see roof caulking here you will not see staples We are talking about components that are pre assembled and put together Snell also outlined key product differences that include fundamentals in design There are so many modifications Featuring a frameless composite shell a prototype of the new Hymer Touring travel trailer was on display inside the cavernous Cambridge plant we have to do to European models They have no gray tanks they just drain grey water right into the ground they have cassette toilets that we are doing in the Aktiv but we are not doing in the towables They have different propane restrictions they dont have roof air conditioners something we strongly feel is necessary in North America Then there are German designs we think are neat we want to bring over here he added like the pop tops fold out RV roofs they have in Europe 186 RVBusiness N O V E M B E R D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 7 EHGNA also took advantage of the event to showcase new technologies it is developing The debut of the prototype Hymer Touring travel trailer was shown for the EHGNA crowd a product that features a frameless shell of composites less than two inches thick Also on display was the Icelander prototype Class B This extreme off road motorhome built on the Mercedes Benz 4WD Sprinter chassis is in collaboration with an Icelandic tourism company that takes Erwin Hymer from page 54
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