2026 Brinkley Model G3500

The 3500 puts the kitchen in the middle of the coach and builds an 11-foot garage behind it that sleeps five with the loft included. The galley is the centerpiece — a waterfall island that converts to a counter peninsula, a pull-out pantry and a GE Energy Star 19-cubic-foot refrigerator — flanked by a combined kitchen-and-living space with a heat-and-massage sofa, a fireplace and a TV. After the toys are unloaded the garage becomes a lounge with independent dual sofas and a Fold-N-Stow table; up front, a private bedroom with a king bed slide-out, a walk-in closet and under-bed storage closes the coach. A bath-and-a-half adds a second toilet for a crowd.

It carries the most cargo in the line. RVUSA lists a published 22,000-pound GVWR against a 16,967-pound dry weight — the lightest dry figure of any Model G — which leaves a 5,033-pound payload, the most of the seven profiled plans, against a 3,320-pound dry pin. The full Model G build is standard: the continuous I-beam chassis on three 8,000-pound axles, the 30,000-pound Gen-Y pin box, SumoSprings, disc brakes, triple 13,500-BTU heat-pump air conditioners, 800-watt solar and the FlexPower 5500 generator. Three patio awnings shade the campside.

At an MSRP of $203,009 it is actually the lowest-priced Model G despite the bigger garage and bath-and-a-half. For a family or full-timer who wants the most usable payload, a real second toilet and a garage that doubles as guest sleeping, the 3500 is the value heart of the line.

The Brinkley Model G is the brand's luxury fifth-wheel toy-hauler line — a residential interior and an automotive exterior wrapped around a multi-purpose garage/flex space. The line runs to nine floorplans for 2026; the seven with published weights are profiled here in full, and the two front-office plans are catalogued on the line hub pending weight publication. The 3500 on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 150-gallon fresh tank is roughly 25% of the 5,033-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 3500 with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 3,320 pounds is 20% of this floorplan’s 16,967-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 22,000-pound GVWR the 3500 is towing 5,033 pounds more than its 16,967-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 150 gallons of fresh against 156 grey and 52 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 3500 sits 2 of 7 in the Model G line: 22,000 pounds against a line that runs from 22,000 to 23,000 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Model G 3250 matches it exactly at 22,000 lb GVWR; and Model G 3520 matches it exactly at 22,000 lb GVWR.

2 other Model G plans share this floorplan’s 22,000 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Against the 3500: the Momentum 394G is 500 lb heavier and 5 ft longer and sleeps 1 more; the Cyclone 3913 is 1,000 lb lighter and 6 ft longer and sleeps 2 more; the Nightfall 397NHD is 1,000 lb lighter and 5 ft longer. 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 Model G floorplans profiled here run 16,967 to 18,700 pounds dry and 38 to 46 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 Model G line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 17 of them for the 3500. 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 size (a tire description is published, a size is not). 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 (97%) 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.