Different way to take your car

[RobertRyan]

A couple had a Truck Camper manufacturer build this

[RobertRyan]

A constantly changing RV scene in Australia. A startup manufacturer Latitude Motorhomes



Rental Motorhome

[RobertRyan]

ron.dittmer wrote:
RobertRyan,

You always manage to find and share some very unique motor home designs. Some I am fascinated by, others not so much. I assume many are found "down-under".

I rarely have an opportunity to drive a rented vehicle in a foreign country. The few times I have, I select a brand of vehicle I never heard of before. If I ever rent a motor home in a foreign country, especially in Australia, I will keep your posts in-mind. 🙂

Thanks for sharing them!
Ron Dittmer

You will find the variety a lot more than in the US. We have 70 brands competing for space on our roads. As regards rental vehicles that are a little bit more mundane, foreign drivers do not want anything to exotic

[mike-uswest]

I found what my problem with getting the posted pictures in this post. I switched from Google Chrome to Firefox and the problem is gone. Chrome is faster, but Firefox cleared up several of my problems with receiving pictures and live webcams.

Mike

[ron_dittmer]

RobertRyan,

You always manage to find and share some very unique motor home designs. Some I am fascinated by, others not so much. I assume many are found "down-under".

I rarely have an opportunity to drive a rented vehicle in a foreign country. The few times I have, I select a brand of vehicle I never heard of before. If I ever rent a motor home in a foreign country, especially in Australia, I will keep your posts in-mind. 🙂

Thanks for sharing them!
Ron Dittmer

[RobertRyan]

Same heavy version of the Chassis as a European Class A with a car Garage

[RobertRyan]

rjstractor wrote:
That motorhome is a nice, compact package that would do well off-road. But the overall package is kind of goofy, since you have a rather tiny motorhome with a really tiny car inside. The Smart car takes up at least half of the interior space of the motorhome, and is pretty useless off-road. I'd love a rig like that, but without the garage. I'd just flat tow something that did well off road. A Mahindra Roxor would look pretty good behind that rig. 🙂

Actually the Cab Chassis is pretty impressive as a tow vehicle. This is an earlier lighter model

[rjstractor]

That motorhome is a nice, compact package that would do well off-road. But the overall package is kind of goofy, since you have a rather tiny motorhome with a really tiny car inside. The Smart car takes up at least half of the interior space of the motorhome, and is pretty useless off-road. I'd love a rig like that, but without the garage. I'd just flat tow something that did well off road. A Mahindra Roxor would look pretty good behind that rig. 🙂

[rhagfo]

Well I saw this solution to the Toad while hosting at a Oregon State Park near Portland.

[mike-uswest]

I didn't get the pictures on this post, can anyone tell me why?

Mike

[Bumpyroad]

many years back I was looking at some toy haulers on a C chassis, can't remember name, fun seeker/finder?? but google let me down. they had three models, the two lesser ones were fairly standard C build, but the big one was on a different chassis, there was a wall behind front seats with a crawl thru opening. I think the main problem would be the weight on the ramp door wouldn't work. would need separate ramps like aaussie one.
bumpy

[RobertRyan]

DrewE wrote:

Bumpyroad wrote:
aren't there any US made class C toy haulers that would work for this, assuming a tiny car???
bumpy

The only US class C toy hauler I'm aware of is the Thor Outlaw, and the garage is too small by a fair bit for a (US-spec) Smart For2. There's no inherent reason I can see why something quite similar to this couldn't be built on a Ford E450 or equivalent chassis, but I don't think anybody is doing so except as custom one-offs at present here. (For comparison's sake, the E450 chassis has a 900 pound lower GVWR and a 1000 pound lower GCWR...which is something, but not enough to make it impossible by any stretch.)

RobertRyan -- "Toy Hauler" is the general US term for an RV with a garage compartment, typically used for motorcycles etc.

Same thing here a few manufacturers have Toy Hauler Caravans

[Dusty_R]

I have a couple, or so, antique tractors, and take them to shows on my 20' flat bed trailer behind our 27' C. So when we go to the land of warm weather and sunshine for the winter, we use that trailer to take our car.

[gbopp]

RobertRyan wrote:
The class C has a tow rating of 8000lbs anyway. Would say it would take as long being winched inside

Winch it in? It would be more exciting to drive it in, what could possibly go wrong. 🙂

[DrewE]

Bumpyroad wrote:
aren't there any US made class C toy haulers that would work for this, assuming a tiny car???
bumpy

The only US class C toy hauler I'm aware of is the Thor Outlaw, and the garage is too small by a fair bit for a (US-spec) Smart For2. There's no inherent reason I can see why something quite similar to this couldn't be built on a Ford E450 or equivalent chassis, but I don't think anybody is doing so except as custom one-offs at present here. (For comparison's sake, the E450 chassis has a 900 pound lower GVWR and a 1000 pound lower GCWR...which is something, but not enough to make it impossible by any stretch.)

RobertRyan -- "Toy Hauler" is the general US term for an RV with a garage compartment, typically used for motorcycles etc.