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While Volkswagen itself is considering shaking up the classic California floor plan, the layout remains an extremely popular blueprint for third-party camper builders. Rarely, however, does the side kitchen + folding bed/bench floor plan result in the … Continue reading Offtrack upscales Volkswagen camper so you can live your best van life
Knaus-Tabbert has been preparing for the electric vehicle switchover for years now, exploring everything from Wankel-extended electric motorhomes to ultralight, flexible caravan builds. Now it’s spinning the latter idea into a completely reimagined cam… Continue reading Knaus’ lightweight morphing RV reinvents caravan design for e-mobility
A spin-off brand of Italian forestry equipment and trailer manufacturer Schwarz, Blackcamp has developed a high-precision tool for exploring the mountains via four wheels, two wheels, one board, two feet, etc. Its Freeda squaredrop caravan can be towed… Continue reading Blackcamp trailer expands into serious base camp for alpine explorers
Young Japanese brand X-Cabin has introduced its own rendition of the lightweight all-aluminum camping trailer. Like a classic Airstream, it features shiny riveted aluminum and rounded corners. But in a nod to its parent company’s industrial roots, whic… Continue reading Japanese X-Cabin camper is like an industrial Airstream you tow via Jimny
Citroën made a statement at the 2018 Düsseldorf Caravan Salon with a concept it called the Type H WildCamp, a modernized throwback that looked ready for a weeks-long tour of Route 66 … in 1955. Five years later, a new smaller version of that concept … Continue reading Citroën dives deeper into RVs with boldly retro pop-up camper van
Dethleffs has taken the idea of splitting the difference between motorhome and camper van up a notch with its all-new Yoka Go. True to the idea of a plus-size camper van, the Yoka Go has an interior-widening motorhome box with an SUV-like lift-gate for… Continue reading Ford Yoka B+ camper fuses gear-hauling adventure van flex with RV size
Thule channels its expertise in hitch carriers and rooftop tents into a new style of vehicle tent aimed at giving car campers the best of both vehicle and ground camping … with a little trailer-style hitching/unhitching for good measure. The all-new … Continue reading Thule Outset detachable hitch tent drops rooftop car camping to ground
With a new generation of all-electric vans, like the Ford E-Transit, Volkswagen ID. Buzz and Mercedes EQV, taking root in the e-camper van market, Nissan’s electric small vans have gotten lost in the background. But the e-NV200 was the world’s first el… Continue reading Nissan revamps world’s first electric camper van with pop-and-play kit
It’s about time. The plug-in hybrid camper van wars are slowly warming up. The Ford Transit Custom has been available as a PHEV camper from third-party manufacturers like Dethleffs and Wellhouse Leisure for several years, but not from Ford itself. That… Continue reading Ford’s adorable new Nugget PHEV camper van gets the jump on Volkswagen
Over the years, we’ve come to know Bürstner best for midsize RV offerings like Class C motorhomes, Class Bs based on full-size vans, and large (but not huge) caravans. With its more recent Copa mini-camper van (and 4×4 version), the company started fo… Continue reading Habiton micro-camper drives tiny, blows up at camp with inflating roof