Australian Expedition Vehicle assembled in the US

As I have posted Sportsmobile who already make Off Road 4x4 conversions are making their first Expedition vehicle, for outside the US. SUV's /Pickups already do what you have described in North America and Outside it.An Expedition vehicle is different. Look up Expedition Vehicles portal to find more about them.

RobertRyan wrote:
It is basically for areas outside the US in Africa, Asia ,Siberia,Mongolia and Latin America. Most of the US and Canada can be done in a SUV, Australia is simular but there are parts where you need a much more rugged vehicle than a SUV or Pickup

It's interesting to take a look at the magazines and in the forums where pickup enthusiasts are featured.

The extreme pickups that those folks are all the time putting together - starting with a stock available-from-the-dealer Ford/Chevy/Dodge standard cab pickup - look to me to be able to go even beyond where those expedition vehicles can go, just without a camper on the back.

Classic lifted one-ton SRW pickups with large high ply-count tires, locked differentials, and compound low gears are able to tackle everything possible that a wheeled vehicle is capable of, including the ultimate - rock crawling. I can't imagine where one of these trucks couldn't go pulling one of those extreme offroad trailers. Their approach and departure angles can also be purpose-built to match or exceed that of an expedition vehicle.

A friend and myself in his Ford E-Series 2WD Class C motorhome were just a few days ago pulled out of a nasty wash in Arizona by a radical Tahoe-type big block vehicle with outstanding ground clearance and high-flotation but normal speed road-capable tires. Of course the motorhome weighed considerably more than an expedition tow trailer, too.

Now take one of those rock crawling pickups, remove it's bed and replace it with a frame-mounted hard-sided pop-up camper (like the old Alaskan models) and what do you have ... an expedition vehicle at less money .... but one with a lower profile than most of those expedition vehicles and one that can crawl rocks if you want.

One Tiger model that I just saw at an RV show was just that - a rock crawling capable pickup sporting 3-point frame-mounted living quarters.

Woodgeezer wrote:
I cannot see the need for something like this

It is basically for areas outside the US in Africa, Asia ,Siberia,Mongolia and Latin America. Most of the US and Canada can be done in a SUV, Australia is simular but there are parts where you need a much more rugged vehicle than a SUV or Pickup

I guess never having been in Australia, or other remote, primitive environs, I just can't see the need for something like this in the US. Seems like a vanity vehicle, only. I live in the center of the toughest terrain in America, and these are definitely overkill, extreme. I have traveled in the wilds of the West and never thought of taking a "motorhome" to this extreme. I and all my friends camp in areas accessible to our coaches and day trip into the rough country on ATV's or smaller off road vehicles. My modified VW gets me farther than even these can do, and I still try to stay within the rules on "restricted travel" areas.

These type of rigs see, as out of place as a Military HumVee in the shopping mall. Probably where the owners like to show there stuff off, too.

mlts22 wrote:
Definitely Tiger Motorhome competition.

All Terrain Warriors does a lot more Off Road Tour Buses than Motorhomes in Australia. They also modify the suspensions of COE light Trucks(Medium Duty in the US)to be more like a SUV in ride and handling characteristics. The Bravo is a very light Expedition vehicle and it is a tow in the water for Sportsmobile in using non NA bases for their lightweight Expedition vehicles.

Definitely Tiger Motorhome competition.