Hi Mr. Stan, We first targeted ME also and eventually went with the 2017 29mv as my wife liked the kitchen much better and had same large living space as the ME but only had the slide on drivers side which we liked better. We purchased 29mv in May and super happy. We just went to a camping world and was checking out the 2018 ME and just noticed that the ME has no space on either side of master bed because it slides out back. Yes, ME does have the nice pass through storage but personally soooo happy we went with MV. We still do not have all storage filled up.