I need to understand why people still keep giving that man money. Willingly. It’s mind boggling.
I don’t either. People love being shit on I guess. It’s what makes huge companies like Apple and Tesla so popular.
Motorcycle (and backpacking) camper here, so right there are my credentials for being able to shove a camping loadout into a vehicle.
For $3000, you can buy an entire high end backpacking setup, and also be able to use it without the presence of your stupid truck. And when I say entire, I mean it: A nice free standing tent you could probably pitch inside the truck bed if you had some creativity and really wanted to, a premium cot or inflatable pad, very competent sleeping bag, backpack, stove, water filter, hiking poles, a chair, a nice knife, the whole lot.
With change left over. I just added up the full list prices of everything in my core loadout and you could buy it all (including the backpack, which you don’t need for truck camping) for $1418.82.
So just do that instead.
Yeah, but none of that helps convince me I didn’t buy a shitty truck and stave off the buyer’s remorse for another few months!
I mean, I’ve seen weirder crap for my car…
I actually kinda like those things.
They were huge at multi day music festivals with camping, probably still are.
You only got so much space for camping, so camping on your car saved space and helped make sure you got a breeze being higher up than everyone.
Like a treefort.
The Rivian that was announced a few days ago has a nice feature, rear seats and the two front ones all fold flat so that it can fit a twin air mattress in the cabin. That seems a better solution than … whatever the fuck this is.
Pontiac Aztec anyone?
New plan baby. New Pontiac Aztec plan…
I don’t want a cybertruck and I think Elon is an ass, but it would pretty cool if you had a tent like this that didn’t suck on a truck that wasn’t stupid and you could hook the tent up to the climate control and have it vented through the tent. Like, winter camping, toasty warm, summer camping, nice and cool. That would be pretty baller. Is that a thing already?
Man, they really fucked that up…
From the original concept it looks like it started out as a camper shell that could be lifted and had fabric flaps that would keep it sealed. And with the shell closed it would have a relatively flat top.
But it got cheapened to all tent before announced, and then a shitty tent by release.
But that camper shell idea? That would be worth 3k and incredibly awesome.
Third party Cybertruck tents will probably have an easy time competing.
