The Four Simple Questions

Will it meet my needs?

As you’ve no doubt discovered, motor homes come in a variety of sizes, shapes and floorplans — how the living space is laid out.

To make sure you end up with the motor home that best meets your needs, it’s important to think a little bit about how you’ll use it:

• How many people will typically be aboard?
• How many days a year will you use it?
• Will you use it more for weekend trips or extended stays?
• Will you spend more time in parks designed for RVs, or in places you won’t have access to power and water hookups?
• How much entertaining will you do?
• Will you use it as a base at sporting and other events?

Your answers, plus the guidelines that follow, will help ensure that you end up in the perfect motor home for you!

Floorplans, Floorplans

The first key to a great motor home experience is finding the right floorplan. At Winnebago Industries, we offer floorplans that range from ultra-efficient 24-foot compact coaches to 42-foot super-luxurious, double-bath diesel pushers — and everything in between.
We consistently deliver many of the most innovative

floorplans on the market, including the 42QD (below), found on the Winnebago Tour® and Itasca Ellipse®. This premium floorplan offers unprecedented features, including large slideouts, our extendable sectional sofa, a half-bath mid-coach and a private master bathroom with an incredibly spacious shower.

Reading floorplans

The best way to experience a floorplan is from inside the motor home. But you can save a lot of time by learning to read floorplan diagrams (also called floorplans). These floorplans are like the blueprint for a house. They show the various living spaces of the motor

home, including the kitchen (or galley), bathroom (some motor homes have two!), bedroom and living areas. Slideouts — walls that literally slide out to provide more living area — are typically shown fully extended. Optional features are often shown

outside the walls. Once you’ve looked at a number of floorplans and compared them to the actual motor home, it’s surprisingly easy to visualize how a given floorplan might look and “live” in real life.

Packing it all in: The story behind all that storage.

Abundant, accessible storage makes motor home travel even more enjoyable. But there can be significant differences in storage even when two coaches are the same size.
Our engineers have several advantages when it comes to conjuring up every last cubic inch of storage in our floorplans.

• We work closely with chassis manufacturers as we develop new models and floorplans; this partnership provides us with the opportunity to have a chassis tailored to our specific requirements.
• Our engineers use a Unigraphics/NX Computer-Aided Design (CAD) system to ensure a precise fit for all components and reduce wasted space.

• We manufacture our own holding tanks, so we can size and shape them to fit precisely into the space allotted (impossible to do with the off-the-shelf rectangular tanks other manufacturers use). That frees up surrounding space for additional storage.
• As part of our SmartSpace™ design approach, we focus on how well things are “packaged” in our coaches. A sofa arm may actually hold a table, or if you pull on a knob in the galley, a spice rack may appear. The space we save adds to your living or storage space.

All of these factors allow us to provide more (and more useful) storage than similarly sized competitive motor homes. For example, our 36V floorplan offers a whopping 160 cubic feet of exterior storage — equivalent to more than 1,100 U.S. gallons in storage space — in a 36-foot motor home!

Motor homes designed around you.

Our innovative products are the direct result of input from the people who use them. We continuously gather data from surveys, focus groups and market analyses, as well as feedback from our District Sales Managers and Service Managers who work with dealers and their customers on a daily basis.

SmartSpace Design

Listening to customers led us to invent a whole new category of coach with our innovative Winnebago View and Itasca Navion, the first North American motor homes built on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis, as well as the Itasca Reyo (above) and Winnebago Via, the only Sprinter-based North American Class A motor homes. Today, we build significantly more motor homes on this fuel-efficient chassis than anyone else in the industry.

From the time the first RVs rolled out of our doors in 1959, Winnebago Industries has pioneered hundreds of industry firsts that have enhanced the lives of RVers. Here are just a few:

• Thermo-Panel® — our sophisticated coach wall construction method.
• OnePlace® — combines frequently used system monitors and controls in one central location.
• TrueLevel™ — advanced, highly accurate holding tank monitoring system.
• RV Radio® — the first integrated in-dash audio system expressly designed for ease of use by RVers.
• Maxum Chassis® — developed with Freightliner®, this “lowered-rail” chassis offers enhanced ride and cavernous exterior storage.
• View® and Navion® — the first Class C motor homes built on the Mercedes-Benz® Sprinter chassis.

• Via® and Reyo® — the first Class A motor homes built on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter chassis.
• Extendable Sectional Sofa — provides comfortable seating for up to seven, instantly!
• BIG Shower — a 36" x 36" shower that lives up to its name.
• StudioLoft™ — a large drop-down bed that converts the cab into an additional bedroom.
• BenchMark® Dinette — residential comfort (thanks to true innerspring seat construction), accessible storage and additional sleeping space in one attractive dinette.
• BenchMark Extendable Dinette — lets you change seating from four to six, provides extra storage, and even converts to an additional sleeping space.

You’ll find much more evidence of our innovation — in how we design, manufacture, and even test our motor homes — in the following pages.

But the story doesn’t end here. Just as important is how well your motor home is put together, and how well it works.

Your eyes, ears and hands can tell you a lot. Does everything look square? Does that door sound solid when you close it? Are there large gaps where you’d expect a tight fit?

At Winnebago Industries, we draw on our decades of experience, plus research (with customers, prospects and even our own employees) and extensive testing to create fully functional homes on wheels that are lasting sources of enjoyment for our customers.

Research helped us create innovations like our Rest Easy® Multi- Position Lounge, which converts from a couch to a lounger to a comfortable bed at the push of a button.

SmartSpace Design

Our engineers spend a lot of time packaging systems and components in the most efficient manner possible. We call it our SmartSpace design philosophy, and it’s one reason our motor homes seem to “live” much bigger than comparably sized competitive units. A good example of this approach is the full-depth drawers in our pull-out islands. Some other manufacturers actually put non-functioning drawer fronts on their islands.

Your safety is no accident

While we are confident you won’t find a safer recreational vehicle on the road today, we never take safety for granted. It’s the number-one reason we go through such extensive testing and put such care into our construction process. In addition to meeting or exceeding all Federal and industry standards, we employ a multitude of other safety features:

• Our SuperStructure® cab design surrounds the cab area with a sturdy steel framework.
• Driver and passenger seats and seatbelts are bolted to steel.
• Three-point safety harnesses are used in all driver and co-pilot seat applications.
• Exterior mirror locations are designed and tested to ensure optimal viewing angles.
• Side view cameras (available on most models) offer added comfort in backing and maneuvering by eliminating blind spots.

• TV’s and other components are “shake tested” to ensure they — and their mounting hardware — will stand up to road vibrations.
• Windshields are installed automotive-style with urethane.
• Forward-facing dinette seats feature child seat tether anchors.
• Appliances and cabinets are mounted to steel embedded in sidewalls.

Computer-Aided Design

Our engineers use a Unigraphics/NX Computer-Aided Design (CAD) system (the same system used by General Electric) to design our motor homes and components. This system allows us to model each part in 3D and simulate its full range of motion, test stress levels and specify clearances.

Computer-Aided Design

Clay Modeling

To bring large-scale designs to life, skilled modelers create full-sized clay mockups, which are electronically scanned to create production molds. Although standard in the auto industry, we know of no other RV manufacturer using this unique blend of old-world craftsmanship and modern technology.

Multi-Axis Milling

Sophisticated multi-axis milling machines turn CAD designs directly into exact prototypes and production molds and fixtures, resulting in better fitting parts, less waste and faster design cycles. Other manufacturers haven’t invested in this precision technology.