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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > Ideal traveling home/office micro-RV camper vehicle? Mod an Element?
 
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Chillbro Baggins
Oct 8, 2004
Bad Angus! Bad!
 Your employer doesn't reimburse you for hotels? Time to :yotj:

But if you really want to do this, I'll throw in the comedy option: Have you considered a fullsize wagon?


Can be had for $3k out in SoCal, gets decent highway mileage by V8 standards, and cops will assume you're a 75-year-old white guy. Can also be had as a Chevy without the wood and with lesser/more economical engine options, possibly even a V6. Con: it's twenty years old at the newest. Pro: cheap to fix and any parts store in the western hemisphere will stock engine repair parts, because it's a drat small-block Chevy.

Seriously, though

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

And mini-van with fully-enclosed rear is right-out since I don't want to sleep in a claustrophobic cave, but I'd be open to something like the Kangoo's US-equivalent, though that's still lower on my possibles list than the Element and xB.
A minivan is going to be much bigger inside than the cube SUVs you're looking at, especially if you leave the back seats at home/sell 'em on Craigslist to local college students as dorm-room sofas. Also has the police-invisibility field. Sure, you can't fully stand up in it and definitely don't want an onboard toilet, but it's plenty spacious for a metal tent. I'm pretty sure my home desk setup and a decent bed would fit in the back of a minivan with the back seats taken out. If not being eaten by bears/robbed by crazed tweakers bothers you that much, it can't be that difficult to buy a tent, cut it in half, and figure out a means of attaching the door half of the tent to the open liftgate of a minivan.

Edit: apparently the seats fold flush with the floor now. 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan with rear seats folded: 140.3 cubic feet. Element with seats folded: 74.6 ft³. So the "claustrophobic cave" is very nearly twice the space as your current top choice. And I doubt it's terribly much less, if any, for used models.

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Chillbro Baggins
Oct 8, 2004
Bad Angus! Bad!

Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:

Yeah, but then you get to deal with the reliability that goes with a Caravan. :v:

They're not bad when new, and can be had pretty cheap with low miles when used, but they're pretty famous for the transmissions taking a poo poo.

Fair play. And first-gen Ford Windstars had head gasket issues. Does anybody other than Mopar still make minvans, or is it all Euro delivery vans?

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