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Long known for making rugged, simple gear that just works, Australian overlanding company ARB has really been upping its design game in recent years. Last year, it followed up its awesome flip knife-like camp kitchen with a unique spin on the go-anywhe… Continue reading ARB powered rooftop tent brings RV luxury and ease to car camping
The last we looked, the world’s lightest traditional rooftop tent came from California shop Inspired Overland (IO). With its all-new Go, British tentmaker Tentbox undercuts IO by several pounds, grabbing the market’s top spot for ultralight design. The skeletal softshell Tentbox Go isn’t the sleekest, fanciest car-top abode out there, but it sets up in under two minutes, sleeps two people, provides stormproof weather protection with plenty of ventilation, and is light enough to ride atop small cars. And it barely breaks the four-figure mark, offering one of the market’s more affordable roof camping options.
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Chinese overland gear company Wild Land has long been an innovator in remote controlled rooftop tents, and now it’s launching its most ambitious yet. The all-new 3-in-1 Safari Cruiser is part pickup bed rack, part truck topper and part panoramic two-st… Continue reading Dual-scissor Safari truck camper rides low, power-lifts into high-rise
Long known for its X1 pickup truck camping topper, Oregon’s Super Pacific is sidestepping into the camper van market. Its first van component splits the difference between rooftop tent (RTT) and full-blown pop-up roof, offering the slim chassis of a ha… Continue reading Sleek, rooftop tent-style camper pop-top doubles van capacity
The first time we saw the proposition of a hitch-mounted vehicle tent, it felt like an idea that was DOA. But perhaps it was just in need of some development and refinement. Tinkerers and companies, including global brand name Thule, keep resuscitating… Continue reading Rolling tent hitches a ride and inflates into above-ground abode
Danish camping company Fjordsen first came to our attention in 2020 with its extra-colorful inflatable rooftop tent. This year, it launched something even more eye-catching: the Beyond X hub-style rooftop tent (RTT), which rises nearly 5 feet (1.5 m) o… Continue reading Beyond X rooftop hub tent doubles livable volume of Jeep below
The world is still digesting all the information Tesla finally revealed about the Cybertruck on Thursday – particularly that bit about it out-sprinting a Porsche 911 while towing another 911 – and now there’s a little more to chew on. Tesla has been to… Continue reading Inflatable Basecamper turns Tesla Cybertruck into boundless micro-RV
A new camping option that seeks to bring the worlds of truck camping, tent camping and boat camping into perfect harmony, the “Best Truck Tent” from California’s Life Cube Inc. is a tent like no other. It travels to the night’s destination in the trunk… Continue reading Life Cube tent is an inflatable camping micro-cabin for truck and lake
A year ago, California’s Inspired Overland (IO) was busy celebrating a SEMA Global Media award for its Lightweight Rooftop Tent, to our knowledge the lightest non-inflatable clamshell RTT in the US, if not the world. Now it’s celebrating a consecutive … Continue reading $2,000 IO carbon fiber rooftop tent is as light and slim as they come
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