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I have not towed with a V-nose, but with the diesel, who cares if its a big flat wall. The aero bubble they put on the flat trailers would be my biggest thing to get if that is what your worried about. Get one with the upper front bubble and top rolled edge if your worried.

I can tell the difference between the last two, one had it, and my current does not. Although the diesel doesn't really care, my engine builders gas 1/2 ton RT did!

And as for storage, a 28 V has way less space than a 28' standard nose trailer....Its 28' to the tip of the V...Not where the V starts.

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On the E-way I get 18 mpg with the 43' behind my
05 diesel duallie and with my old flat front I got
14 mpg... same tow rig... and yes Al.. to me you
just loose space and they use the V for aero

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I've never seen inside a V-nose.. only here on the internet and the salesman I spoke to yesterday said they measure to the back of the V.. so the V has that much more storage space...

Guess I wont be believing that salesman anymore..

Thanks guys..

and Cab.... no camper shell in my future.. Its a work truck first, tow vehicle second

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Believe the salesman,,,, I have a 24' King America V nose trailer. It measures 24' to the BACK, or where the V starts on the inside. This has been hashed over on here before. If you bought a 26' trailer that measured 26' to the tip of the V, I would agree that you would be losing space. As for mounting cabinets, I mounted mine on the wall of the V on both sides. The KA trailer is not a top of the line trailer, but for $5000.00 brand new in '10 it fit my budget well. 12 volt lights inside with roof vents and plywood walls and 10K gross. I did some painting/cabinets/etc but haven't got around to 120v stuff yet.

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I personally would never buy a v-nose but this guy did a pretty nice job.

http://www.yellowbullet.com/forum/showthread.php?t=850754

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I've never seen inside a V-nose.. only here on the internet and the salesman I spoke to yesterday said they measure to the back of the V.. so the V has that much more storage space...

Guess I wont be believing that salesman anymore..

Thanks guys..

and Cab.... no camper shell in my future.. Its a work truck first, tow vehicle second

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Rather than believe the salesman or anybody else,,take a tape measure with you.

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As for gas mileage, wind resistance and such, I can't say if it is better than a normal trailer or not. I have always towed it with a X-brand dually w/454 that has an 8' slide-in camper that weighs 1700# and get 7 MPG. Trailer weighs 3200#, car weighs 3100# plus all the other added necessities in the trailer and camper. When I was looking for a trailer, I thought I wanted a Featherlite aluminum 18' open...it was $4999.99 and the enclosed was $5000.00. I kinda' decided that an extra 'garage' was better.

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I think all salesmen, women, lie like a rug The reason I'm saying that is ordered a new 7000 lb. GVW 22 ft. Pace Shadow to tow with my class A motorhome at the time, the salesman said it would weigh right at 2900 lbs empty,it didn't It weighed 4320 when I pcked it up at the Pace factory in Hurricane, UT I had tried to order it with 5200 lbs axles but the saleman said Pace would not put 5200 lbs axles in a 7000 Lb GVW trailer, wrong again I called Pace after I weighed it the first time I went to use it and saw it was way down on the suspension lightly loaded, bottom line is Pace ask why I didn't have bigger axles put in it to start with I explained what the saleman had told me and the Pace rep in IN. said they do that all the time, they'll make it anyway the customer wants I treid contacting the dealer on that and they told me it was THIER policy to not put bigger axles in any trailer they sold(they sold multiple brands, not just Pace) that would allow the customer to exceed the GVW of that trailer I ended up selling that trailer to another NHRA racer that raced a SS 1967 Corvette, he had bought my first 24 Ft 10,000 Lb GVW trailer two years before when he was racing a 1964 Plymouth NHRA A/SA I ended up buying a freinds 1999 24 Ft 10,000 GVW Pace Shadow that I have still have today the best fuel mileage I have got with that trailer weighing 8600 lbs on the axles and 700 lbs on the tongue is 14.5 MPG following some other, more sensible, racers with similar loads in thier same size enclosed trailers The worst MPG was coming back from MATS race several years ago towing at between 65 and 75 MPH into a head wind, one tank average 8.5 MPG I tow it with a 2006 Ram CTD 3500 4 dour 4WD automatic with 3.73 gears front and back, I wished that I could have got 3.54 gears in it instead

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I think where the length is measured from depends on manufacturer. Mine is 28' to the start of the V. Storage in and under the cabinets all the way to the front. Some problems with that is having to crawl in the cabinet when things slide all the way to the front.
The only thing I have a problem with is when I pull with my motorhome is when turning tight the corner of the home can hit the V half way to the front where a flat front would miss. An extended tongue would solve that problem! Hind sight tho.

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I just stated what I have and the measurements. Some of the trailers the others here are talking about must be measured differently. I also agree on the V getting in the way when turning really tight. I had to back up a very crooked driveway to pick up a car a buddy of mine had bought a couple years ago. I told him and another guy to watch CLOSE as my camper may get into the front of the trailer. NOBODY said a word. When I got home,,,about $1200.00 damage to the front of my trailer.!!! I didn't know it had touched until we were unloading everything and I could see daylight in the front of the trailer while walking into it from the rear.