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A cabover camper on a pickup, or pulling a small trailer is much more comfortable than living inside your car. Also, a pickup will negotiate badly potholed or non-existent roads much better than a car.
http://www.lancecamper.com/home/index.html
Lots of other manufacturers, but you can buy used and save much money.
I don't need that much room. I also think a car or SUV is more secure than cabover or pickup.
I'm thinking of those women who ended up sleeping in their cars in a church parking lot.
I'm with Ignorant. If we stop maintaining the roads, a truck or SUV really isn't going to help much.
Hello Leanan,
Did you go into the link to see the smaller models? They are comparable to living inside your closets' space. As I recall, you have a small car: perhaps a lightweight A-frame camper/trailer?
http://www.chaletrv.com/chal_ltw.htm
Beats a tent by a long shot, and I think your car could easily pull this setup. Mini-trailers suitable for pulling behind a motorcycle are available, too:
http://www.roadmancampers.com/
Imagine if you went to your employer offering to take a big wage cut so that you don't get laid-off. Just ask if you can RV-camp in the parking lot, in your little Chalet trailer, with an extension cord running back to the building. Much more privacy than sleeping nightly under your cubicle desk, plus greater security for your employers' lot as more eyeballs on the premises 24/7 to help keep an eye on things WTSHTF.
If I owned a big company: priority #1 would be turning some of the parking lots into a RV-campground.
Nope, this is what you need. I hope they make a come back:
VW Fifth Wheel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56XL0TysIn0
Wow! I want one of those for my VW GTI.
I'm not a fan of trailers. Not least because I'd have no place to park one.
Though a friend of mine is planning to get one of those "teardrop" trailers - precisely because they can be pulled by small cars.
And falling for a fad probably. Those trailers are expensive too! BC is summer trailer town, so we see all types. For functionality, light weight and reasonable fuel impact, I would recommend a tent trailer. Plus, one can mount a small boat or canoe on top, or bicycles.
It was a fad...about 30 years ago!
Probably 50+ years ago. My grandmother had one and my grandfather built a simple wood toy-scale replicas so she could practice backing up.
Our family of five traveled across Canada in 1968 in an 8' tent trailer towed by a VW six passenger truck. It's amazing what you an do with 98 HP.
I mean the latest retro fad for these tear-drop trailers. I don't know if they are any more functional or efficient than the other options available today, but they do cost about 2x a good tent trailer. At least up here anyway.
Nearly all the older Mack dumptrucks-the kind with the stumpy sruare hoods built all thru the eighties-had only 237 horsepower and they hauled(still haul in most cases) up to fifteen tons legally and often over twenty tons if the cops weren't around.I've driven one often.
We could easily get by with twenty five horsepower cars.
I lived in a truckcamper for a few years as I traveled around doing contract work. It was fun. I could unload the camper then have the truck to drive. I always stayed in campgrounds that had electricty and showers.