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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
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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Continue Reading Reinvigorated VW California camper van puts more tech and comfort at nomads’ fingertips
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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
Benchmark Vehicles has caught our eye in the past with bold, bright-orange branding and vicious-looking off-road adventure vans. So we decided to dig a little deeper into its portfolio and see what the Portland, Oregon shop has been up to of … Continue reading Swiss Army Sprinter camper van packs five people, solar power and plenty of gear
Hymer’s Fiat Ducato-based Free camper van was one of the standouts of last year’s Düsseldorf Caravan Salon, a youthful adventure van with flip-away rear bed, vibrant graphics and available sleeping space for two or three singles, a couple or … Continue reading Hymer makes its versatile, adventure-loving Free camper van a little swankier
Follow camping or travel at all and it’s almost impossible to wander Instagram or YouTube without stumbling on them – the mid/late-20s, attractive #vanlife couple exploring the world in a garage-made conversion, often flashing a little man bu… Continue reading Hymer builds the ultimate Mercedes camper van for adventurous van life couples
The naming of a new Volkswagen Silicon Valley research center that’s really a 20-year-old Volkswagen research center? Huge yawn. A Halloween-colored, 11-window 1962 Type 2 bus with weird organic styling, pure-electric powertrain, facial recognition and holographic infotainment? We’re wide awake, eyes and ears open. It’s no wonder VW spliced the two announcements together, previewing innovations yet to come from its reinvented innovations facility with a one-of-a-kind electrified Microbus.
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Continue Reading Forget the I.D. Buzz, Volkswagen’s loaded an all-electric 1962 Splitty with next-gen tech
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Earlier this year, Volkswagen announced the updated T6 van, dubbing it T6.1. In addition to roaming highways and worksites, the T6.1 van will slide its way under an updated California camper van. Volkswagen previewed the revised version of its icon this week ahead of a planned world premiere next month. The updated camper van gets some interior and exterior touchups, a new camper command center to complement the van’s digital cockpit, and some new driver-assistance features that are sure to help out on the way to and from camp.
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Continue Reading Volkswagen’s ageless California camper van gets a youthful boost of new technology
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The Fiat Ducato van is an absolute tour de force of camper conversion, accounting for roughly 75 percent of European motorhomes. And it’ll soon be available as an electric. Fiat Professional’s first all-electric vehicle will join a refreshed Ducato lineup for the 2020 model year. Eventually everyone from work crews to stealthy #vanlifers could be cruising around in a quiet, zero-emissions van.
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Continue Reading Fiat electrifies the Ducato, Europe’s favorite camper van base
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Continue reading Fiat electrifies the Ducato, Europe's favorite camper van base