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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    Sorry my salary does not reflect that. So that motto works for gullible, naives and vendors. Which one are you? To the economy at scale fans, you need to go to school.... the price of the cars did not double up and neither the salaries of the trades involved in bulding these campers...but their...
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    You have a point and I had no intention to categorize the ppl who prefer to buy a camper instead of a house and to have no house at all It is your option. Having house does not mean you are fantastically rich As someone who lived in a communist country I am telling you that compared with other...
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    This is a very valod point and I always asked myself what do they do when they need to hike the area where they are camped or see the city they are in in less rich countries where your vehicle stands out
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    If the prices wouldnt be this high I would buy now and do US and Canada in vacations...
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    The canadian one is all metal Do I care ...as far as I am concerned Bruder is the passion fruit.... ? Bought by ppl passionate about these things. There is to categories of ppl who get these from purpose perspective...some buy them because like gear and maybe extreme overlanding but there are...
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    Here is a trailer half the priece of a bruder https://offgridtrailers.com/expedition-off-road-camper-2/
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    My only message here is that the price is a rip off Do I need to run a business to be able to say that?? I doubt!! Do I believe that the price of the product has not connection whatsoever with the product costs ? YOU BET. The price is set so because they can! Will this last ? Hell NO. Two...
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    You are forgetting that the price includes the business margin so there is plenty of room to pay your guy if you outsource in a big city. You do not have to have the work done in the area where you live
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    I am telling you ...someone must be either rich or nuts to spend 75k on that. Even if I outsource most of the work I would still come ahead At75k with half of the cost in labour it comes down to 234days at 20aud/h. That is 5-6 specialized trades at 46 days each working continously...that is...
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    They make Honda and Ford in Ontario for under that price (1CAD=~1AUD) so that is not a valid argument
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    What a heck do they put in these campers that is worth 74k AUD??? https://bruderx.com/brochure/exp-4/
  12. M

    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    Like what? I am not commited to anything I am just in the itinerary planning phase
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    I would love to but it all depends on serviceability and how good it is on fuel and if it is able to hadle rough roads, some of them narrow ... I would like to travel the central asia countries and sone of rhose have really narrow roads .. (inspired and based on grizzlynbear and a couple of...
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    well that is capacity not robustness I need the reasons for the above, I do not want an excessively large or powerful truck but robustness matters
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    yes that is one of the alternatives I am considering I would like to know more about the size vs robustness when it comes to Hilux vs Tacoma comparison
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    I am from EE and you get 70s garbage ... EE did not renew their fleet as often as they do here in NA
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    As I said one either has too much money or too much time. Detailed reasoning in a message upstream Depending which category you are in you either buy or build If you own a farm that is a half of the continent size then you are wasting time talking about building and your perspective is different
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    New to campers and surprised by the high prices. How come a camper is half the cost of a car?

    you might want to check your facts The above is a LHD Defender that was just shipped and put on the road In Australia. I hope I am not wrong I am still split between : -bringing a hilux Toyota to Canada before I start my journey, -buying a tacoma do the Americas and then sell it
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