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Thor Announces Record Sales in Quarter, 6 Months

2 February 2000

Thor Announces Record Sales in Quarter, 6 Months; Retail RV Sales up 38% in January

    JACKSON CENTER, Ohio, Feb. 2 -- Thor Industries
announced today record preliminary sales for the 3 and 6 months ended January
31, 2000.  Sales were $414.6 million for the 6 months, up 17% from
$354.7 million last year.  Sales for the quarter were $193.6 million, up 17%
from $165.5 million last year.  RV sales in the 6 months were $296.6 million,
up 18% from $250.7 million last year and $133.8 million in the quarter, up 19%
from $112.4 million last year.  Bus sales in the 6 months were $118.0 million,
up 13% from $104.0 million last year and $59.7 million in the quarter, up 12%
from $53.2 million last year.
    Thor's RV retail unit registrations in January were also a record, up 38%
from last year with strength in both motorized and towables.  "This is a great
start to the new century as it indicates that our products are selling
strongly at retail," said Wade F.B. Thompson, Thor chairman.  RV industry
shipments for calendar 1999 were up nearly 10%, to 321,000 units versus
293,000 in 1998, according to Recreation Vehicle Industry Association
statistics just released.

    This release includes "forward-looking statements" that involve
uncertainties and risks.  There can be no assurance that actual results will
not differ from the Company's expectations.  Factors which could cause
materially different results include, among others, the success of new product
introductions, the pace of acquisitions and cost structure improvements,
competitive and general economic conditions, and the other risks set forth in
the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.