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BREAKING NEWS

Warmoth: Weekend Warrior Liquidating Assets

Bob Ashley

RV Business

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Weekend Warrior Trailers Inc., the Perris, Calif., manufacturer that led the boom in sport utility RVs (SURVs) over the last decade, has ceased operations.

Given the company's production line closures and related layoffs in recent weeks, the news comes as no surprise to most in the industry.

“It's not a bankruptcy, but there is an assignee here who will be selling the assets,” Weekend Warrior founder and President Mark Warmoth told RVBusiness. “It's a voluntary deal, but Warrior is going all the way down. We are liquidating the company.”

An auction is expected within the next two months to dispose of Weekend Warrior's equipment, furniture and raw material, Warmoth said.

“We are still here trying to sort things out for customers,” Warmoth said. “The biggest regret is that I'm leaving a whole bunch of customers out there hanging. I hope the dealers will stand up for the customers, but this industry is a little weak on after-sale services.”

Efforts to find a purchaser for the company failed, resulting in Wednesday's (Aug. 13) announcement, Warmoth said.

The auction of assets will be used to pay down first and second mortgages on two Perris factories that Weekend Warrior owns. Two other plants were being leased by the company. Weekend Warrior, founded in 1988, at one time employed about 2,000 people in four plants totaling more than 215,000 square feet of capacity in Perris.

“All-in-all, we did some wonderful stuff in the last 20 years,” said Warmoth, adding that the industry slowdown and internal management errors doomed the company.

“It's a damn shame what's going on in this industry right now,” he added. “I have no regrets at all, except for this short window the industry is in right now. I am in awe of what the current situation is doing to RVs.”

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It definately is a blow to the sport. I dint think there will be another trailer manufacturer that will be close to the caliber WW made. I also think other companies will go under....its just the start.

Sandrail companies are hurting bad too.

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It definately is a blow to the sport. I dint think there will be another trailer manufacturer that will be close to the caliber WW made. I also think other companies will go under....its just the start.

Sandrail companies are hurting bad too.

Check KIT Extreme and Rage'n. I believe :drunk: Warmoth still owns these companies. :laughing: Both trailers have "borrowed" features and benifits as well as construction & design from Warrior. :beercheers:

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Check KIT Extreme and Rage'n. I believe :laughing: Warmoth still owns these companies. :banghead: Both trailers have "borrowed" features and benifits as well as construction & design from Warrior. :beercheers:

I thought Rage'N went under also since WW was parent company to them....I know about extreme but I have never seen one....dont matter, Im happy Im fortunate enough to have a '08 model. :drunk:

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i think ww has went downhill in quality over the years still look good but back in the day they were great for a reason, now they are great for the name. i know some peeps with older ww with little to no problems. i have 3 friends with new ones with shopping lists of problems. besides that there are plenty of other trailer mfgs with very nice ones now

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back in the day WW made good trailers....... and then they got greedy started cutting corners. to back a buck.and then they fired alot of a factory workers. alot of those workers went to work at Carson trailer, and basicly built the old school problem free WW toyhaulers..... GREED.

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A friend of mine has an 01 WW and I have an 06 WW. The quality of the workmanship in my trailer is much better in just that short time period. The only problems I've had were my fault, frozen toilet valve and frozen fitting under the kitchen sink. Other than those little things I've had absolutely no problems in the last 2 years. I just don't see the "cut corners" people always talk about. :headbang1:

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