"Gidget" Tear Drop Trailer with slideout to be made in US

SkiMore wrote:

RobertRyan wrote:

SkiMore wrote:

msgtord wrote:

SkiMore wrote:
What is the advantage of the slide? The tow length is the same with it in or out.

Well. I'm no rocket scientist, but it appears that the slide will give the occupants more interior room. As is the case with all trailer slides.

This isn't a side slide or a rear slide. I understand why slides normally make sense.

Look at the pictures with the slide in and out. It takes up the same foot print with the slide in or out. It seems to have all of the disadvantages of a slide and not of the advantages. Why make a slide that extends onto the extra long tongue? Why is this better than making it full length to start with.

My suggestion collapsed it is more manoeuvrable in small spaces, but stretches to allow interior space.

Look at the photos. It is the same length with the slide in or out.

But could you tow it that way? I think not. There's no clearance for turning. The tongue would have to be even longer if the trailer body was made that long with no slide.

I think this topic is a good example of how some just don't get the concept of "small". I hear the same type of things all the time about truck campers. Granted mine is one of the behemoths of the TC spectrum, but the previous three were all smaller than the one that replaced it. The first one probably had a smaller footprint than that teardrop.

:):)