In my opinion - and I have no special knowledge - the Elkmont might very well be a kind of exploratory model. TM certainly has a lot of experience building lightweight trailers, and since the towables market is being compressed down toward the lightweight end of the spectrum, the Elkmont may in fact be very successful once they get the bugs worked out. I'm sure that this is what TM expects, else they would not have started down this path
On the other hand, if the Elkmont is not a success for whatever reason, I could imagine that TM would discontinue it - that would be the smart business decision. However, I cannot imagine that failure of the Elkmont would doom the collapsible segment of TMs product line. With the end of Hi-Lo - which failed for a lot of other unrelated reasons - TM is the only real player left in the hard-side collapsible arena, and I have to believe that this arena will grow as the drive toward small cars and mini tow vehicles advances.
Just my personal thoughts ...
Bill
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