Some guy built an off-road Prius with a camper for some reason

[freebeard]

More frontal area but better aeroform, with a front overhang and a proper rear entrance.
inhabitat.com: This Funky Camper Conversion Turns Your Toyota Prius into a Home on Wheels

[Xist]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

The thing is, the Prius can already be slept in.


A regular minivan would be a luxury hotel compared to the ruined Prius, and still gets 30 MPG.

Yes, but who is going to slide into that little cubby?!

I wonder what MPG that Prius gets now.

Originally Posted by freebeard

More frontal area but better aeroform, with a front overhang and a proper rear entrance.
inhabitat.com: This Funky Camper Conversion Turns Your Toyota Prius into a Home on Wheels

I thought of that.

I believe that was shared here a long time ago and someone called it a mullet, but it is still a vast improvement over this budget abomination.

I don't like the back end of the Inhabitat.

Why do front corners curve around the Prius?

Camp-Inn has created this crazy looking conversion that adds a fiber-reinforced plastic hump on the top and back of the Prius. The conversion gives you a spacious living area that has room for a retractable coffee table and sofa. There’s even a second floor that has enough space for a bed.

Pictured: An extremely-complicated bunk bed.

The weirdo in the video didn't go into the floor of his camper, but the Prius roof has so much curve, I would think that it would make everything complicated.

Is that dead space above the windshield?

In-floor storage?

I wonder what it would look like for a normal Prius to wear a Prius V like a hat.

[freebeard]

Why do front corners curve around the Prius?

Mimics Luigi Colani's trucks.

I wonder what it would look like for a normal Prius to wear a Prius V like a hat.

Like a VW bus wearing a VW Beetle?

[Gasoline Fumes]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

The thing is, the Prius can already be slept in.

I slept in my Insight during the InsightFest trip. 65 MPG camper!

[freebeard]

I slept in my Superbeetle [camper conversion] a Bonneville Salt Flats and Donner Pass. 34MPG. And in the Dasher Diesel in a Walmart in Ogden UT. 45MPG but difficult ingress/egress. With the Beetle you can just fall out the curbside door.

[redpoint5]

I slept in a '69 Bug every summer afternoon when I was an intern. Was given an hour lunch, and that was plenty of time to get a burger and fries at McDonalds and then sleep for 15min in the car, laying across the e-brake and shifter.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Like a VW bus wearing a VW Beetle?

Maybe the other way around, since the V is bigger, but I didn't realize it is only 5.3" longer, but the roof doesn't taper as much after the peak, so it has much more cargo space.

I can't find pictures of a Prius and a V together to compare sizes, but I thought that if you had the base of the Prius V windshield at the top of the Prius windshield, you might have something like the Inhabitat, but more aerodynamic.

SuperFastMatt started a van conversion the best way possible--the laziest way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knswcZUSSHo

I found it vastly more entertaining than: https://youtu.be/eVxdaWkYKYo?si=8Ez5R02H8FMeHj-h I swear that at 11:29, she says "Washcloves."

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

I can sleep inside nearly every vehicle with enough legroom and a reasonable backrest reclining angle for a few hours, but making it as reasonable as a hotel room is a whole different deal...

[Xist]

I have tried napping in my Camry a couple of times lately when Mom had appointments at 7-8 and I needed to bring my brother.

For one, I specifically needed to stay on-premises.

Didn't I mention pricing sedan services somewhere?

I couldn't sleep.

I am good at... not sleeping...

A nap in my car seems like a poor time to take something to help me sleep.

[Xist]

I set a timer and am down to 4:30!

How?!

Where does the time go?!



I mentioned the Prius camper to my wife, tried to find the thread, and found related distractions first, like a couple living out of their Prius, and they bought one of these tents: https://www.amazon.com/Napier-5-Minu.../dp/B01MUEGMLR They also complained about their pivot-arm cargo carrier with a storage box, and said they wish they had gone with roof storage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgKuCV4SJ2Y

Please tell them they are stupid!

Solliam explains that roof storage ruin MPG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WUR1J_g55c

It looks like he felt the Prius was too small.

How did that take 5 minutes?!