2026 Grand Design Influence2903RL

The 2903RL is the shortest and lightest Influence, built as a couples’ rear-living coach. A windowed rear living area sits behind a walk-around kitchen island, with a front master (a queen bed slide, optional king), a free-standing dinette, theater seating opposite a fireplace and 40-inch TV, and a rear tri-fold sofa — the whole rig held to about 34½ feet on three slide-outs. It carries the standard Influence package: a 16-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, gel-coat sidewalls and the 330-watt Influence Solar Package on the 101-inch wide-body platform inside a five-sided welded-aluminum cage, under a walk-on Thermal Roof, with a fully enclosed, heated underbelly.

Grand Design publishes a 15,000-pound GVWR against the 11,800-pound dry weight, leaving a 3,200-pound cargo capacity and a 2,190-pound dry pin — the lightest pin in the line. A single 15,000-BTU air conditioner and 81/106/53-gallon fresh/grey/black tanks are standard, with six-point auto-leveling and a third air conditioner with heat pump available. At a starting MSRP around $116,780, with street pricing below placard, the 2903RL is the Influence for buyers who want the wide-body platform and residential kitchen in the shortest, most maneuverable body, towable behind a properly rated three-quarter-ton or one-ton truck.

Influence is Grand Design's residential-style full-profile fifth wheel on the 101-inch wide-body platform that underpins the flagship Solitude, offered at a lower entry point — a cross-shop against Keystone's Cougar and Montana, Jayco's Eagle and North Point, with the Grand Design Reflection a step below. The 2026 line runs to seven floorplans, all profiled in full and linked below. The 2903RL on this page is highlighted.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 81-gallon fresh tank is roughly 21% of the 3,200-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 2903RL with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 2,190 pounds is 19% of this floorplan’s 11,800-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 15,000-pound GVWR the 2903RL is towing 3,200 pounds more than its 11,800-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 81 gallons of fresh against 106 grey and 53 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 7 Influence floorplans profiled here, the 2903RL is the lightest by GVWR at 15,000 pounds — the entry point to the line and the one most likely to suit a vehicle already at its limit.

Either side of it in the same line: Influence 3203GK is 1,800 pounds heavier at 16,800 lb GVWR.

Against the 2903RL: the Avenue 35RKS is 5 lb lighter and 2 ft longer and sleeps 2 more; the Model Z 2810 is 5 lb lighter and sleeps 2 more; the Eagle 360DBOK is 5 lb lighter and 9 ft longer and sleeps 2 more. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest fifth wheels from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Influence floorplans profiled here run 11,800 to 16,000 pounds dry and 34 to 43 feet of exterior length across 7 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Influence line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 2903RL. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, tire specification. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (95%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.