What went wrong - well, when Thor sent in their audit team in anticipation of the purchase, they found accounting irregularities of sufficient nature to make them refuse to include the Roadtrek Canadian operation from the bigger international purchase. According to news reports several senior executives have already been summarily dismissed. No one wants to publicly admit exactly what the nature of the irregularities are, probably because of pending lawsuits.
It should also be noted that Hymer has only owned the Roadtrek Cdn company for 3 years. 3 years ago Roadtrak employed 300 people total. As of yesterday when the company went in to receivership, the layoffs totaled somewhere around 900 personnel. That sounds suspiciously like the company was expanded way, way too fast. It's not like it's Ford adding another plant, that's a highly unusual expansion rate, even in a booming industry.
Receivership is not the end of the world for the Cdn corporation. Chances are it will come out of bankruptcy and, while it will be on a shoestring budget and a smaller production, it just might survive the whole thing. No one will know until the accountants get done finding all the irregularities.
11.5 to 12 depending (I have done 14 with a slight tail wind but seems I am always pushing a headwind). If I slowed down it would probably do better. I generally run 65, spent a lot of years with the 55 mph speed limit. I have the 200 which is the B+ (454 ci or 7.4 L and 4.56 gears in the rear) with basement storage and the full time bed across the back. This older one has all the extra little stuff that they started deleting in future years to try and keep the price point down. I bought it 4 years ago for 14K and immediately had to sink 2K into a new front end and then tires too boot. I love it so much I will do whatever it takes (full drivetrain if I have to) to keep it running. I added a LOT of little customizations to it that I don't want to ever do again. I wanted the bigger engine for pulling in the mountains and when I pulled a Geo Tracker convertible. Pulling the toad did not change the gas mileage. If your gas budget is that small that you really worry about gas mileage, drive less and camp more. The 350 ci or 5.4 L might get better gas mileage but I am old school and more power is always better. Newer ones with the 6.0 L will do better but not sure of the engines reliability. I studied the brochures for PleasureWay too. I don't think they are built quite as well and I didn't care for the floor plans. YMMV
