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I don't know if you have read the Sept. Motor Home magazine, if not you should. You will love your Newell a whole lot more regardless of its age. They featured Thor's flagship 45' Tuscany and did they have problem with this $400,000. coach. Quality control was not there at all as they stated several times. It makes you wonder what it will look like a year after owning it. It probably want have many miles on it because most of the time it will be in for repair.

I've noticed that many of these new coaches use the ISL Cummins rated at 450 HP with 1250 lb-ft torque. The ISL is really a 400 HP engine with 1250 torque with a chip installed to bring it to 450 HP. The ISM Cummins is the 450 HP engine with 1450 lb-ft torque which can also, with another chip installed, be a 500 HP but with the same torque as 450. We are thought all out lives, because of gas engines, HP is the IT. As most of us with diesel engines know, we want torque. Torque gets us going and pulls those hills, HP is for speed. But these less expensive coach builders up the HP to try to impress first time buyers that think HP is everything. The 500 ISM Cummins does not compare to the 500 HP Detroit which has 1650 lb-ft torque. Anyway this is my thinking.

There is no doubt in my mind that my 99 Newell is worth a lot more than this thing or any other assembly line coach and is many times better quality.