Designer of the cricket has new concept trailer
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Thanks for posting this information. Here's the company web page for the camper http://www.taxafirefly.com/ They call the camper the Firefly.
I have serious reservations about the practicality of an uninsulated aluminum box as suitable habitation. It's more like a solar oven than a camper.
Compare this to a camper built by a company that has actual experience creating something that people live in. Four Wheel Campers, for example, designed the Finch model to fit vehicles like the Toyota Tacoma. It weighs 775 lb and costs a little more than $13K (before options). It sleeps two or three, has 6 ft 4 inch headroom when the roof is raised, includes a stovetop and 20 gallons of water storage (not a couple of Rotopax attached to the outside of the camper), and amenities like actual windows and a dinette table. It's far more practical.
I do like the construction methods used in the Firefly, a monocoque rather than the frame and siding approach used by most camper manufacturers. I wonder if there are no windows in the Firefly to preserve the strength of the monocoque.
I have serious reservations about the practicality of an uninsulated aluminum box as suitable habitation. It's more like a solar oven than a camper.
Compare this to a camper built by a company that has actual experience creating something that people live in. Four Wheel Campers, for example, designed the Finch model to fit vehicles like the Toyota Tacoma. It weighs 775 lb and costs a little more than $13K (before options). It sleeps two or three, has 6 ft 4 inch headroom when the roof is raised, includes a stovetop and 20 gallons of water storage (not a couple of Rotopax attached to the outside of the camper), and amenities like actual windows and a dinette table. It's far more practical.
I do like the construction methods used in the Firefly, a monocoque rather than the frame and siding approach used by most camper manufacturers. I wonder if there are no windows in the Firefly to preserve the strength of the monocoque.
I'm 5'9 and that looks to be 6' long. So just long enough. Maybe diagonally?
photon_trap
New member
Put me down as a no. I bet the price tag would seal the deal.....
ex m38a1er
Adventurer
A roomy coffin for two...
Apparently the panels have a high R value.
SWITAWI
Doesn't Get Out Enough
Um, yeah - http://www.crickettrailer.com/story.php
The Cricket Trailer Story
"The story begins with a letter to Santa in 1972. A boy in Philadelphia wanted a houseboat. He did not get one. But a fascination with small environments began. These spaces, where the rituals of daily life feel more directly connected to the outside world, captured his imagination.
Fast-forward to 1999. The boy, now an architect and designer, moves to Houston to work at NASA on the International Space Station. He works on the "habitation module" (NASA-speak for the place where astronauts eat, sleep, bathe, relax - their home away from home). He is a "space" architect - mission accomplished. But he wants to design things that will actually get built in his lifetime. He returns to Earth, not sure what will follow.
Enter stage left: Cricket Trailer. The boy becomes a husband and father. He wantes to go on adventures and share his love of camping with his family. He camped extensively growing up and before having children. However, the annual kindergarten campout demonstrated that camping with small children in a tent was not what he (or rather, his wife) had hoped. So, combining his NASA experience with his love of the outdoors, he worked to create an innovative lightweight, compact, and flexible small environment in which to travel and explore the world we live in.
The result is Cricket."
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