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Without rose tinted glasses I see that the 2009 MMM awards for the best manufacturer are as follows:-
Gold......Romahome
Silver....Murvi
Bronze..Auto-Trail
I applaud Swifts efforts and hope that one day they will aspire to be present in the winners list
I would be surprised in the extreme if Swift does not so aspire. All publicity is good publicity.
Firstly as one of those nasty cynics I always harbour suspicions about magazine (and other media) awards. I'm not suggesting actual corruption, you understand, but more that the process leading to the result is not always that obvious to the reader.
But let us be generous and presume that the awards are throughly well-deserved. The fact remains that folk choose a motorhome on many criteria among which build quality and service are but two. Actual product design and layout are very important to most. As newbies we looked at all three of the award-winning makes. Romahome and Murvi simply don't have a vehicle coming anywhere close to what we needed. Autotrail was a serious contender for our requirement and were just pipped to the post on specific design features. By hearsay and forum feedback I don't believe our lottery chances on product quality would have been significantly better with them than with Swift. If we'd gone with hearsay and been more prepared to compromise on features and layout we might have ended up with AutoSleepers who, like Swift, didn't get an MMM award, from what your say.
By the way, this was a Swift user-group meeting. There were several spectacle wearers but I didn't notice a single example of eye-wear that was rose-coloured. If wearers of such accessories post on this thread, that is hardly the fault of those who attended the meeting.
All that said, thanks for a moderately provocative post EJB. It all helps to brighten up life in these gloomy times.
The dealer I have used for my last 2 purchases seems to have very little technical knowledege of the product. At times I have had to explain to them how things work.
Stewart- what, you mean they don't make reference to any reverse judder or don't accept Fiat's admission that there's a design fault?
If that's the case then I think that's about par for the course
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