Outdoors
ByC.C. Weiss
December 12, 2021
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Best 2021 pickup campers and 4x4 expedition trucks for off-grid life
The Toyota Tacoma-based TruckHouse BCT embraces the winter cold just ahead of the new year
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The Toyota Tacoma-based TruckHouse BCT embraces the winter cold just ahead of the new year
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Toyota reveals the Tacozilla at SEMA 2021
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Toyota angles the sides of the camper to give the vehicle better clearance from rocks, tree branches and other obstacles without squeezing out too much interior space
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SOD pushes out a distinctive pop-up all-terrain motorhome
Stone Offroad Design
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At roughly $1.02 million by December 2021 exchange rates, the Rise 4x4 is anything but cheap, but it does offer a compelling mix of off-road grit and comfortable hard-walled living
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The Skinny Guy Camper rides low but opens up high
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Many pickup toppers and campers sit well higher than the truck cab, but Skinny Guy has designed its camper to sit at roughly cab level in box form, no alcove or extension over top the driver area
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The electric actuation system tips the Flip90 back and open in a matter of seconds
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The Loki Basecamp is built to adapt to various activities, whether it's basic weekend camping or triathlon competition
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Loki includes an integrated LED light bar and perimeter lighting
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The Baja features a go-anywhere four-season design built to explore and adventure
Rossmönster Overland
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If you don't slide in via the front pass-through, you can board using the drop-down rear hatch
Rossmönster Overland
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Darc says it uses 100 percent recycled carbon fiber in the construction of the Mono cabin
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Dakar looked to the worlds of F1 and Dakar racing to help it sculpt and shape its carbon fiber motorhome
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The new Rebel X represents XL's move into the adventure/rec canopy market
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The all-new Rebel X canopy masterfully straddles the line between work and play
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After a preview earlier this year, TruckHouse is now rolling out fully built BCT truck campers
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The TruckHouse BCT makes a nice base camp for dirt biking or mountain biking adventures
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Much like 2020 before it, 2021 was a year that made much of the world's population want to forget all about modern civilization and instead seek out the loving embrace of wide-open natural spaces. And if multi-day or longterm living was the goal, the year brought plenty of new, cutting-edge 4x4 camper rigs for reaching those spaces and making temporary home of them.
From no-expense-spared, Dakar-grade carbon fiber expedition trucks, to throwback off-road mini-camper concepts, to plug-and-play pickup micro-homes, 2021 bombarded overlanders and backcountry campers with new, exciting ways of getting after it and staying a while.
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Automotive
Toyota presents the Tacoma 4x4 camper the world needs immediately
November 03, 2021
Toyota marries a Tacoma TRD Sport pickup chassis with a custom "micro-house" to create the amazing Tacozilla 4x4 mini-RV. If there was ever a time humanity needed a Toyota camper truck for going "anywhere on this planet," that time is now.
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Automotive
$1-million Unimog RV gentrifies unwelcoming lands in ultramodern style
December 02, 2021
Germany's Stone Offroad Design super-sizes its all-terrain camper game with the new Rise 4x4. The adventure motorhome tasks a Mercedes Unimog with carrying a sleek, pop-up mini-apartment to make home out of the most hostile terrain on or off the map.
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Outdoors
Flip-open pickup camper is a truckable vault of off-grid adventure
September 02, 2021
Skinny Guy aims to reinvent self-sufficient camping with a pickup truck solution. Its customizable box-of-adventure turns everything from the Rivian R1T e-pickup to a grumbling long-bed into an off-grid camper with kitchen, bed, dinette and toilet.
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Flip90 VW truck camper rotates into roomy backcountry cabin
October 26, 2021
Squeezing a bathroom into a pickup camper without making the truck a big, lumbering beast on road and trail is no easy task. The Flip90's power-rotating design creates a hard-sided shower/toilet room that also adds elbow room and indoor cooking.
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Modular camper pod makes F-150 or Cybertruck a 4-season adventure rig
June 02, 2021
Loki aims to disrupts van life with what might be the most versatile, modular pickup camper out there. The Basecamp adventure pod makes a stylish, go-anywhere shelter out of everything from Toyota Tacomas, to Ford Super Duties, to Rivian R1Ts.
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Automotive
Ford F-150 Baja camper could be Winter 2022's ultimate adventure RV
October 08, 2021
Rossmönster has years of experience creating the type of homey camper van that inspires people to declare the road their home. Now it takes a big step off-road, offering a hard-wall pop-up camper truck every bit as warm and comfy as its vans.
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Automotive
Darc debuts with wicked Dakar-inspired carbon off-road motorhome
February 24, 2021
German startup Darc makes its debut with an impressive carbon-monocoque motorhome inspired by the contrasting worlds of Dakar and F1 racing. The "ultimate expedition vehicle" journeys away from hookups for two weeks at a time.
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Outdoors
Rebel X truck canopy shifts seamlessly between work and RV adventure
May 10, 2021
The new Rebel X canopy from Australia's XL is designed from the ground up to play as hard as it works. It quickly sheds tool boxes and work materials to load up on a vacation's worth of camping gear and toys.
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Automotive
$325K TruckHouse Tacoma carbon camper explores Earth in all its glory
September 17, 2021
TruckHouse announced its BCT Toyota mini-RV earlier this year, and now it's complete. The truck camper combines the off-roadability of the Tacoma TRD, the light, tough performance of carbon fiber, and the comfort of a luxurious mobile mini-home.
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C.C. Weiss
Chris joined the New Atlas team in 2011 and now serves as the automotive and campers editor, traveling extensively to gather the latest news on cars, outdoor sports gear and other innovations designed to help people experience and enjoy the greater world around them.
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