The following is a report from New Atlas.
Often either cold, spartan towable garages with fold-down furnishings of questionable comfort, or fully outfitted campers with bikes shoved up against the sofa, toy-hauler campers usually flash a spotlight on the compromises of two-in-one design. The new Karoo Adventure camper looks to minimize those compromises, serving as a dual-purpose towable with a completely empty floor for carrying gear and a cushier living pod with breezy, panoramic design, modular furnishings and a hidden wet bathroom.
The Karoo Adventure looks at first like the type of new-era design that would come from Silicon Valley and, like such trailers, includes a focus on electric power, with a 6-kWh lithium battery and rooftop solar. However, it hails from halfway around the world, designed in the beautiful northerly nation of Finland.
Karoo keeps the overall footprint of its trailer down as small as some teardrops at 5 meters (16.4 feet) from tip to tail and 2.2 meters (7 feet) to the top of the roof. Still, it manages to squeeze in a roomy, multipurpose floor plan that sleeps up to two adults and two children by using a lift-away double bed and bunk bed. The company also plans a version with foldaway lounge chairs that drop into bed form.
The main purpose of the lifting beds is to clear out most of the Karoo trailer floor area for gear hauling. Load it up with bicycles, hunting equipment, fishing tackle, skis, snowboards and sleds, or whatever other gear fits your specific trip plans. Gear loads easily through the oversized rear hatch door and side hatch.
One piece of particularly unique trickery in the Karoo Adventure trailer is the hidden bathroom. Built into the nose of the trailer, the bathroom sits covertly behind the kitchen block wall, accessed via a sliding refrigerator/wall. The lower wall can then slide back, with a roll-down partition completing full privacy with the refrigerator out of the way.
Read the full story from C.C. Weiss at New Atlas here.
