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Title: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on August 14, 2014, 12:19:57 pm
When money is no object and only the best (http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/gear-shed/shelter/KiraVan.html?utm_source=dispatch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=08142014) would do.

Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Kevin Raber on August 14, 2014, 12:43:23 pm
I thought LuLa should get one for a workshop support vehicle.  Wonder if we can find a way in the budget to allow for it.

Kevin Raber
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: francois on August 14, 2014, 12:53:28 pm
I thought LuLa should get one for a workshop support vehicle.  Wonder if we can find a way in the budget to allow for it.

Kevin Raber

With base price around €100,000 you may want to increase subscription and workshop prices…

 :D
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Chairman Bill on August 14, 2014, 12:54:11 pm
If you have to ask 'how much?', you can't afford it
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Jay Kaplan on August 14, 2014, 05:11:03 pm
You could also go with an Earth Roamerhttp://www.earthroamer.com (http://www.earthroamer.com). Made in Colorado on a Ford F550 truck.

Jay
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: luxborealis on August 14, 2014, 05:59:48 pm
I think I'll stay with my canoe, tent and Coleman stove, thanks.
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Colorado David on August 14, 2014, 10:36:01 pm
http://moby1trailers.com/moby1-xtr/
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on August 14, 2014, 11:26:40 pm
The KiraVan sounds like just the thing for running down to the corner to mail a letter.
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: telyt on August 16, 2014, 04:07:27 pm
I've driven plenty of roads that would stop a KiraVan.  Low overhead clearance, tight curves, limited turnaround space... I'd like to see how badass the KiraVan is in some of my fav locations.
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Chris_Brown on August 16, 2014, 04:12:21 pm
Not gonna work. There's no camera.

http://kiravan.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kiravan-annotatedcabin.jpg

Plenty of lighting, tho.

http://kiravan.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2014-KiraVan-03.jpg
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Peter McLennan on August 17, 2014, 12:41:44 am
If money IS an object, and utility comes before style, you can't beat a 30mpg Mercedes Sprinter.

Happy hour with "Frito", the potato chip truck. Somewhere along US 50 in Nevada.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2844/10322013903_a480e7ed7a_c.jpg)
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: telyt on August 17, 2014, 05:49:55 am
Not gonna work. There's no camera.

http://kiravan.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/kiravan-annotatedcabin.jpg

And no 'order pizza' button!  WTF?!?
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: stamper on August 17, 2014, 08:02:39 am
Some of the members here could do with one to house their egos? ;) ;D
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Alan Klein on August 17, 2014, 10:53:25 am
I don't see the coffee mug holders in the cab.   ?????
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on August 17, 2014, 11:04:55 am
Not gonna work. There's no camera...

Apparently, there is a higher-level camera (literally), attached to, wait, wait... a drone, which you can send to check the traffic and road conditions ahead of the vehicle!
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Chris_Brown on August 17, 2014, 12:02:26 pm
Apparently, there is a higher-level camera (literally), attached to, wait, wait... a drone, which you can send to check the traffic and road conditions ahead of the vehicle!

Yeah, but does it do HDR?   :D
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on August 17, 2014, 01:15:47 pm
Yeah, but does it do HDR?   :D
And how many terrapixels?
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on August 26, 2014, 12:58:05 pm
Back to earth... from Outside Magazine: "Our 24 Favorite Camper Vans" (http://www.outsideonline.com/photo-galleries/outdoor-gear/OutsideMobile-The-Winners.html?utm_source=dispatch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=08262014)
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Colorado David on August 26, 2014, 05:00:06 pm
There's a high percentage of VW Westy vans in that link.  The Earthroamers are very nice, self contained, trail-worthy vehicles.  But my favorite in the slideshow was the light green Land Rover Series IIA canvas top.
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: NancyP on August 27, 2014, 12:36:20 pm
Budget version: Subaru Forester, camping gear, and feet.
If you need a monster like the Kira-van to get through terrain, I might suggest a smaller, nimbler, more temperamental vehicle - horse, mule, donkey.
Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: Chris_Brown on August 27, 2014, 02:12:03 pm
If you need a monster like the Kira-van to get through terrain, I might suggest a smaller, nimbler, more temperamental vehicle - horse, mule, donkey.

Yes, but can a donkey light up the desert like this? Imagine all the moths you could attract!   :D

Title: Re: KiraVan - The Best Outdoor Vehicle Ever?
Post by: pluton on September 04, 2014, 02:04:35 am
I have to tell you that the Kira Van looks like something that Homer Simpson and Ali G. might have designed.