Truck Campers 10 years from now?
Being close to the new year, was just wondering what kind of camper our children might be driving .... I can see them being much more " Off Grid ", than what we have now. Using newer designed phot...
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silversand wrote:
Steve:
....oh ya; for sure there is a back to the roots light-weight camping/trekking movement/trend among Millennials. It is really interesting to read Backpacking magazine (and other similar genre: for kayakers/paddlers); their retained review personnel is/are very very young (Millennials).
I think this is a good thing.
Unfortunately for Millennials, only a few will ever have the means to "get into" RVing (the few that do buy older vintage RVs, and literally rebuild them from the ground up, as best they can)...
There is a strong DIY subculture among Millenials and Gen Xers. Part of this is making a virtue of necessity -- we cannot afford to buy things new and ready-made. Part of it is nostalgia for what we imagine was a simpler time. Part of it is growing up on Nickleodeon and AMC ;). And another, darker, part is that we always wonder if we will NEED survival skills, after the next financial crash or global pandemic. So we learn them.
And, yes, we do a lot of camping, backpacking, and kayaking. And a lot of Rving-on-the-cheap -- homemade van conversions and the like.
You can see the simpler aesthetic starting to hit the market with the Eggcampers, for example. I was so surprised to see someone comment, in a thread about fiberglass campers this summer, that they felt 'claustrophobic'. To me, and, I think, to a lot of people my age, it is the mainstream RVs that seem claustrophobic, with their frou-frou prints and raised-panel woodgrain cabinets and wallpaper and valences.
I think RVs of the future may focus a lot more on the smaller end of the market. That might mean TCs become more popular.
