The CX3. Photos courtesy of Berg Off-Road.The following is a report from New Atlas.
Earlier this year, South Africa’s Berg Off-Road introduced the CX6, an impressive trailer that packs small but expands into an all-out family base camp for up to six people. The builder’s latest trailer tows on the same squaredrop-size footprint but adds space and comfort at camp by sleeping half the occupants. The little adventure vault folds and pops out in every direction to furnish up to three campers with comforts like a breakfast-on-bed nook, expansive outdoor kitchen and full-width bathroom.
Despite its smaller sleeping capacity, the CX3 actually sizes in slightly larger than the CX6. It stretches about 3 cm longer for a full length of 537 cm (17.6 ft) and stands a centimeter taller when closed at 228 cm (7.5 ft). Width checks in at the same 205 cm (6.7 ft).
That isn’t exactly enough extra volume to create a separate room or add in a bed, but what’s slightly surprising is that Berg goes in the other direction and makes the ever-so-slightly larger CX3 a couples’ camper. And while the CX3 expands three-dimensionally in every direction, it does so in an entirely different way than the CX6.
The CX3 starts the expansion process by popping its full-length rectangular roof with help from a set of struts, creating standing height inside the trailer. The sloped front panel of the trailer folds forward to open the top half of the full-width bathroom, which features canvas upper walls and a removable fabric roof. The bathroom includes a shower, toilet and corner sink.
In place of the long king-size rear slide on the CX6, the CX3 has a shorter expansion on the right side of travel that houses the queen-size mattress. It comes standard with canvas walls, but Berg’s launch model shows the optional hard-sided module with sides that fold, flip and swing out around the mattress, latching securely in place.
Read the full report by C.C. Weiss at New Atlas here.
