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How much camping experience does your family have and how much do they like it? How old are the kids?

Another bot would be my guess. This is how I'd do it...

None. Never seen one in the US that I recall.

Isn't a large part of that on actual trails? Something like a Burley trailer could work, but not the other ones you showed, which are only suitable for roads. Really this whole thing seems silly, with 4 dogs being hauled around and scaled down Bruder EXP 4 trailers. Physics will bite you in the...

I would not buy one for use in North America. I don't know if they are common in other parts of the world... but I've seen MAN chassis under expo campers built in Europe and Australia.

Most of these are new diesels which are modified to belch out smoke when a switch is flipped. It's not the same as deleting emissions. Only a handful or states even consider "rolling coal" illegal, and fines are modest and hardly ever given.

There isn't really any difference... and I don't know why you'd assume that work truck owners don't care. I also don't know why you'd be looking at a 7.3L 19,500 GVWR vehicle if minimum fuel consumption is your goal. Besides the 3L GM engine I mentioned earlier, the recent Sprinter vans have...

Weight mostly comes into play by increasing rolling resistance, which is a also a property of the tires. I wouldn't say stock tires are necessarily the best, but the military tires will be poor. And contrary to popular belief, larger diameter and wider tires tend to have less rolling resistance...

I'd guess Frontal area/ Speed/ Tires/ Weight. The first two and last two, basically go together.

I ride very rough trails...there is never a need for more leverage or stability. But... Euphoria and other manufacturers will need to follow current fads, regardless. (y)

Worse... road racer! My Bridgestone MB1 (from the late 80s) had a 71 degree head angle and 22" bars which was about right... except that I needed a 150mm stem, which wasn't good on technical descents. The obvious fix would be a longer frame... but instead we get slack head angles, which...

The only weird motion I get on mine (pic in post #12) is a fore-aft bounce if waves/bumps on the road are in sync. To be fair, this also happened in stock configuration... and with upgraded shocks and tires on the empty truck. But it is worse now with the camper and airbags. I suspect it's a...

The lower part is free; that black thing is a plastic cup. Daystar was the first company to provide them, but now there are many others.

PITA to build, but it seems to be aero and it's light. Highway mpg dropped from ~17 to 15. I had a look at Mesa Overland, and their prices seem quite reasonable, and they appear to be in full production mode. I'm curious what the time to deliver is?

Pickups with airbags can use cradles that the airbag fits into but is not attached to.

Here are a couple from awhile ago. The under-bed rear boxes are ready to go on, but I'm waiting for my leaf upgrade to get here and installed before I mount them. I just have a big rear hatch for access that is usually open during the day when I'm there, and a single fold-down step to get in.

Those are nominally 34.8" while a tire labeled as a 35 is typically 34.5-34.6"... so I'd definitely call it a 35! Mine are 325/65r18 and are 34.6" diameter. They are on 9" +25 offset rims. I cut the body mounts, but I probably could have avoided that by increasing the caster.

Using stock wheels? 295/70r18s fit easily... maybe a little plastic work. A lift isn't necessary, but if you upgrade shocks keep it to ~1.5 inch, ideally.

Who is the builder, or is that a secret? Also, will you have bigger tires or any sort of lift? I think making the berth a few inches taller would be a good idea, since you know you will have two people. You could also make it NS by extending the floor of the berth inside 20" or so. I did that...

Oh, I can't sit up straight... but it's more height than many berths have, and the NS orientation makes it easy for two people to use.