I’ve been interested for some time in all of the posts about “white knuckle” driving experiences and handling. It’s interesting to me because my coaches seemed (to me) to handle just fine. Recently I came across an article about how the ratio of wheelbase to total vehicle length impacts handling. The gist of it is that the higher your coach’s ratio (wheelbase /overall length) is the better it will handle. It concludes that a ratio of .50 is about the minimum for safe, comfortable handling and the higher the number the better it will be. Conversely, the lower the number the worse the handling will be. My current coach is 30’11” and the wheelbase is 200”. This gives me a ratio of .54. My last coach was .53 and my Thor class C before that was .57.
I’d be interested to know what the ratio is for some of you who have experienced “white knuckle” driving. It might be helpful to future buyers to see if there’s anything to this ratio thing.
There are several similar articles if you do a web search for “RV wheelbase ratio” but the one that got me going is this one:
https://axleaddict.com/rvs/Why-RV-Wh...o-Is-Important
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