Think your custom-painted Winnebago is wild? Try pulling up to the camp-site in one of these out-of-this-world RVs
Motorhomes provide the opportunity to get away from it all without actually leaving anything behind. Technology? Comfortable beds? The literal kitchen sink? Check, check, and double-check. But, as with automobiles, some motorhomes are a tad more out in, uh, left field than others. Some have outrageous luxury accoutrements, some manage to pack all of life’s necessities into an impossibly small box, and some just ooze a devastating level of coolness.
Several of these wilder quasi-Winnebagos have cropped up in the news lately, and we thought them worth highlighting. To that end, we’ve selected five in particular which really stand out — be sure to mention your favourite in the comments, and fill us in on any we missed.
Elvis Presley’s Private Jet, now an RV
Webb plans to tour the thing around various events and Elvis-related institutions like Graceland, and has said he’s also considered renting it out, Airbnb-style.
EarthRoamer SX Explore: Overlanding to the Extreme
Large swaths of carbon-fibre are used in its construction to keep a lid on weight, if not price, with each body crafted through a vacuum-infusion process which technically creates a monocoque (go ahead and brag that yer motorhome has ties to an F1 race car, if you want). This is significantly better than the poor-quality tat vomited out by mass-market RV factories — I can say that because I owned a 40-footer for nearly a decade, and can personally attest to the shocking lack of build quality given the price of these things, a trait which has apparently gotten worse since the pandemic.
I digress. An EarthRoamer SX can hold 100 gallons of diesel, 120 gallons of fresh water, has an 18,000-watt-hour battery bank, and its 43-inch tires on beadlock wheels mean you can literally camp wherever you want.
Yup! Slide-in Camper for a Geo Tracker
Home, Sweet Whoa: Marchi Mobile Elemment Palazzo Superior
Talk About All-in-One—Meet the Boaterhome
We always enjoy a good pun around here, so the title of this creation delights us all. Based on the third-generation body-on-frame Ford Econoline, the people behind the Boaterhome chopped and stretched that van into shape, then gave it commercial-style axles to increase payload and improve weight distribution. Around back, one will find a boat trailer integrated into the design, one meant to accept a fiberglass cabin cruiser. Loading that thing onto the trailer connects it with the van, and opening the cabin cruiser’s front window creates a walkway from stem to stern. Presto! Boaterhome.
The styling choices are tremendous call-backs to the Radwood era, and fit perfectly with the entire vibe of this build. Once on the water, the 28-foot boat’s stock Mercury MerCruiser 350 is said to make about 260 horsepowe, which can send the vessel to clips of 45 miles per hour (39 knots, or 72 km/h). On land, a Ford V8 displacing a familiar 460 cubic inches works with a three-speed automatic to move it all down the road. Guess the paint job isn’t the only thing that’s retro.
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