TerraLiner:12 m Globally Mobile Beach House/Class-A Crossover w 6x6 Hybrid Drivetrain

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To do as much from an engineering point of view is perhaps not such a “big deal”, given that a few other speciality manufacturers such as Anderson Mobile Estates have done the same — see https://andersonmobileestates.com .

But what really sets CMC Caravans apart, is that it marries advanced pop-up and slide-out technology with terrific Italian design. Design that very actively strives to create interior spaces that don’t “feel” like cramped motorhome spaces at all; that instead “feel” more like small apartments.

When it comes to interior design, CMC seems to very actively strive to “hide” the pop-up and/or slide-out technology that makes the large interiors of its caravans possible. In the following photos, for instance, one has to look and think a bit to realise that this is a pop-up interior; that when retracted, the roof descends down to the same level as the bed and cabinets:

 

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Some circular staircases ascending to pop-ups:

 

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The following are some interior views that convey just how wide and expansive the interiors of CMC Caravans “feel”:























I downloaded most of these photos a few years back, and as near as I can tell, many of these photos are no longer available on the web. One would probably need to use the “Wayback Machine” for CMC Caravans to find them.

A few years back CMC had complete “photo sets” of circa 20 different builds available on its website, and I downloaded the lot. Whereas nowadays it seems to have a more limited, “abridged” sampling of some of its “best” or most “emblematic“ builds. Again, see https://www.cmccaravan.com/ .

In the following pages I’ve posted only a small, abridged subset of the photos that I downloaded a few years ago, combined with some of the more recent photos.

 

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Note that CMC seems very “open” to client whimsy….

For instance, in the photo immediately above one can see that the kitchen is equipped with a traditional gas-fired stove, of the kind one might find in a country house. It’s probably an Italian model, but it’s reminiscent of the ultra-luxe traditional stoves created by the French manufacturer “La Cornue” — see https://lacornue.com/en-GB .

If in fact it is a “La Cornue” stove, then all I can say is “le wow”….

Some close-up photos:

 

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Perhaps the most “mind blowing” feature of CMC Caravans, is that many of them seem equipped with full bathtubs. And those bathtubs typically sit against an outside wall, which means they are situated on the second and “most cantilevered” slide-out. How CMC manages the weight of the water once filled, and so too the plumbing to / from sinks and bathtubs located in the second, most-outside, “most-cantilevered” slide-out, is quite beyond me…..

But gosh, some of its bathtub settings are truly breathtaking, replete with elaborate tile-work:

 

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The bathroom that contains the last bathtub shown above is especially beautiful, and here are some more photos of the same:



















Again, as near as I can tell, these photos are no longer easily available on the web…..
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The master bedroom is also none too shabby:









The children’s bedroom with bunk beds is perhaps the most beautiful such that CMC has yet produced:











Note that this is one and the same caravan as the interior shown a few posts back with the French-style traditional gas-fired stove/oven, possibly a “La Cornue”.

This caravan seems a bit of an early “design peak” for CMC, although more recent caravans — especially those 16 and 17 m long — are also quite beautiful.

 

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Returning to its kitchen, perhaps as a concession to modernity, the gas-fired stove/oven is immediately flanked by an induction hob:







On the other side there’s a bottle rack and wine-cooler:









And of course this caravan also has two of the more “standard” kinds of electric ovens:





The circular lid in the photo below is no doubt for trash disposal:

 

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Opposite the kitchen, the dining area is quite nice:





But personally speaking, I don’t care much for the living room’s “retro-chic”, 1970s-style leather couch with animal-skin rug:









10 years ago ground-plans on CMC’s website were not automatically correlated/associated with images of a given caravan’s interior, But the next two ground-plans are reasonably good approximations of what the ground-plan of this particular caravan might have looked like:

 

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At first it surprised me just how many CMC trailers have “children’s bedrooms”, complete with bunk-beds. Here is a small sample of a few more such bunk-bed rooms In CMC trailers:























But then I realised that these are not motorhomes, but rather, they are “homes away from home”, many built for successful Formula-1 drivers and their young families. They were not built for mere 2-week vacations, nor were they built for retired couples without kids.

Rather, CMC Caravans are built for nuclear families intending to “sojourn” in a given spot for a month or longer.

CMC’s “target market”, in other words, is in a certain “temporal” aspect similar to the target market that I have been envisioning for the Terraliner: people who want to live comfortably in a “mobile HOME” — not just a campervan — for many consecutive months. Living in a single spot for circa 3 - 6 months or more, “glamping” and “boondocking” on a remote farm or ranch, and largely “autonomous” from the point of view of electricity, heat, and waste.

Or put it this way: CMC’s “target market” is similar to Hoffman’s “Living Vehicle” target market, at least in so far as Hoffman is building caravans that can boondock comfortably in one spot for a month or more, without hookups. Again, see https://www.livingvehicle.com .

 

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TO BE CONTINUED (lots more images to upload; again, many images no longer easily available on the web, save maybe via the Wayback machine….)

 

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