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At last year’s Düsseldorf Caravan Salon, Mercedes debuted the Sprinter Connected Home concept to highlight its new MBAC touchscreen and app control system built to turn Sprinter-based motorhomes into smart homes on wheels. A year later, some… Continue reading Mercedes empowers smart-home-like camper vans and 4×4 adventure rigs
Rooftop camping is a common topic here at New Atlas, but typically it’s focused on tents mounted atop motor vehicles. A new hotel opening this year in Hamburg, Germany is broadening the conversation, supplementing its standard rooms with a ro… Continue reading German hotel invites visitors to book a stay in a rooftop camping trailer
Automaker-badged and sold camper vans are big business in Europe, and business appears to be booming. Last year, Volkswagen expanded its iconic California camper van lineup with the Grand California, and this year Ford is following suit in gr… Continue reading Westfalia-built Big Nugget adds size, space and central bathroom to Ford camper van lineup
Last year’s Volkswagen Grand California debut added some serious buzz to the annual Düsseldorf Caravan Salon. Volkswagen won’t likely have such an impactful presence at this year’s show, but it will have another new camper van to reveal, the California 6.1. The streamlined update of VW’s most iconic camper van is more than just a simple nip and tuck, adding comfort and convenience on the road and at camp with features like a touchscreen command center and reclining bench.
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The newest member of the Hymer family, Germany’s Crosscamp seeks to extend city dwellers’ footprints into surrounding mountains, beaches and forests. And we’re betting its sporty, compact camper van of the same name will be successful at doin… Continue reading Modular Toyota camper van brilliantly bridges city life and outdoor adventure
You don’t really need a shovel until you really need a shovel. So taking up a third of your car roof with a man-height ditch digger’s shovel doesn’t make much sense … that is, until you find yourself spinning tires helplessly in three feet … Continue reading Modular DMOS survival shovel packs small but muscles you out of trouble
Ever receive a package and have nothing on hand to open it sharper than the keys in your pocket? With the Microblade Pill from Microcarry clipped to your keychain, you’ll never experience that problem again. A different style of EDC knife, th… Continue reading Pill-size keychain blade puts cutting power in your (smallest) pocket
The Lexus GX isn’t the first vehicle you think of when “off-road” or “overlanding” come to mind, but as a gussied up Toyota Land Cruiser Prado with full-time four-wheel drive, body-on-frame construction and Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System, … Continue reading Lexus GXOR Concept takes deep luxury deep off-road
Germany’s Sunlight makes camper vans for outdoor adventure. Its marketing materials and social media are loaded with photos of vans hauling gear against backdrops of big waves, toothy peaks and rushing rapids. The Hymer Group brand cranks the… Continue reading Hammock-topped Cliff 4×4 Adventure camper van opens the floodgates of adrenaline
One of the more intriguing tiny campers in the modern surge of adventurous teardrop trailers, the Escapod Topo combines rugged construction, compact design and killer graphics. A few months after we discovered it last year, we took one out fo… Continue reading Review: Rolling through red rock country with the Escapod Topo off-road teardrop trailer