Jayco builds baby toy hauler
Jayco JPod Utility combines mobile garage versatility with treehouse-style sleepingJayco is looking to expand its two-model range of JPod compact campers, displaying a bare-boned toy hauler version of its fibreglass composite micro-caravan at this year's Victorian Caravan, Camping & Touring Supershow.
The JPod Utility at the Melbourne Showgrounds had minimal information displayed, apart from a base price of $15,990 -- or $3000 less than the entry-level JPod Sport camper.
However, the display model was equipped with an optional ($1990) roof-top tent and ($895) awning, to boost its advertised drive-away price to $17,875 (with $1000 show bonus).
Instead of an internal double bed, slide-out kitchen and storage cabinetry found in other JPod campers, the JPod Utility boasted a stark, stripped out interior 'garage' space big enough for a range of recreational toys like the couple of mountain bikes and surfboard displayed.
\There were also some tie-down hooks along the floor along with a roof hatch and light, to go with side windows and locker doors from the other JPod campers.
The JPod Utility display unit was also missing a front toolbox, with just a 50mm ball coupling and jockey wheel on the drawbar, basic beam suspension and underslung water tank.
The canvas 'ADA' roof tent fitted to roof bars was a hard-lid, side-fold design with enough sleeping room inside for two adults.
Jayco has a habit of displaying head-turning 'prototypes' at major shows, as a way of gauging buyer interest before introducing a production-ready retail version. Sometimes these prototypes remain as 'one-offs', as was the case with the 2017 extreme off-road XPLO hybrid caravan.
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