BB Direct Sales info

[George Lowry]

The Alpine Apex has become a leader in the high line coaches for several
reasons. The well designed chassis makes driving a dream. While the four
slideouts are common to may other coach makes, the Patented Smart Beds are
an exclusive that everyone else in the market will be trying to copy. This
is the ONLY slide out coach where you don't have to crawl to be able to get
into the storage. And each of the Smart Beds are rated to carry 750 lbs.
Bluebird has not even thought about such an innovation. There are many other
innovations that make the Apex very desirable.

The Alpine line is manufactured by Western Recreational Vehicles in Yakima,
WA. They have been innovative in the RV market for many years. The biggest
problem they have now is trying to produce the Apex fast enough to keep up
with sales. Bluebird wishes they had such a problem.

BTW, Last year when BB was trying to sell me a new 450 lxi, I found many
design deficiencies that were in my '95 WL. They had not learned anything in
the past ten years - and I know that WL owners were informing them of those
problems at the RIV. The WL's built by the Luce owned company were leaders
in their time. From my observation, they started down when Luce sold out.

Another thought. The comment that using BB School Bus dealers for support is
good. The owner of A-Z Bus in CA owns a WL and I have had work done at one
of their facilities and they are good. I would still own a Wanderlodge IF
they produced anything that met our requirements and were reasonable in
their dealings. When they offered me less than half of the NADA pricing but
still wanted full boat for their new one indicated that they were not in the
mood for a deal.


George Lowry
'06 Alpine Apex - Formerly '95 WBDA 4203
Spearfish, SD









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[mailto:WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Gregory OConnor
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 7:44 AM
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Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: BB Direct Sales info


SOB, But when you drive down the road, you are driving what everyone
else has. Alpine and Intrigue are nice but they aint a high end BB.
who makes them anyway, Coleman?
Gregory O'Connor Class A
94pt40 Romoland Ca--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Blair
wrote:
>
> George
> Sir,
> I agree totally. While the older Birds have a quality all
> their own, the new
> models are no different than other high end coaches. We bought a
Country
> Coach Intrigue 36 with slides. We have more room and storage than
our
> old bird, tile floor in the kitchen that has no cracks, and the
handling is far
> superior. We went with the smaller model to ease the problems
associated with
> camping in out of the way spots. The most important factor in the
> decision is the
> wife is happy.
>
> Blair in Oregon
>
>
>
> At 10:12 PM 5/9/2006, you wrote:
> >.While Bluebird
> >used to offer a superior product with support, the trend I have
been seeing
> >is one of the reasons I did not insist that we remain out of the
fiberglass
> >coaches.
> >
> >George Lowry
> .
>









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