If someone wants to buy a popup, they are certainly welcome to and there is nothing wrong with it.
From a marketing perspective, they seem to be squeezing themselves out of the market:
- Price: you can buy an equivalent hard side TT for the same or less.
- Tow Vehicle: By the time you get up into the bigger popups, the tow requirements aren't drastically different. The vast majority of popups I see are pulled by a 1/2ton PUs or midsize SUV's which would be fully capable of pulling a small TT.
- Like to live/eat/etc... outside: Nothing says you can't do that with a TT.
- Arrival on a rainy day: With a TT, you pull in, hook up power and wait inside doing whatever while you wait for the rain to stop vs an origami project in a downpour. Also no need on returning home to have to open it up to dry out the canvas that was put away wet.
My recollection is they used to be substantially cheaper than a small TT and were small and light, so even a small car could tow them (of course small cars weren't so small and could tow 2-3,000lbs). They fit a niche between tenting and TT's. That's not the case anymore.
