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Tinderbox singles van coming
Sydney manufacturer targets lonely heart’s club with solo caravan layoutsWARNING: APRIL FOOL'S JOKE!
There have been family vans and couples caravans, but now a NSW manufacturer is about to tap into the greatest potential travellers’ market of them all – with a singles caravan.
Code-named ‘Tinderbox’, the compact newcomer with everything for the most important person in your life is designed to take adventurous singles anywhere they would like to go, without the inconvenience and compromises of a travelling partner.
This taps into the most recent Australian statistics that show the proportion of adults living with a partner has declined steadily since the mid-1980s, with an increasing number of people delaying, or foregoing de facto or marriage unions.
In other contributing factors, most Australian women are unsatisfied within their relationships as the years go by; men do not like it when their wives or girlfriends are more adventurous than them and family violence is the single biggest hazard contributing towards divorce or a break-up.
This puts caravanning, where couples that have often lived together as relative strangers during their child-rearing and working years, but post-family and in retirement find themselves ‘trapped’ together in a small caravan for weeks on end without the mediation of friends, as one of the riskiest things that many couples can do.
“Basically, caravanning together puts them on a collision course,” is what a caravan industry insider confided. "It’d be worse with the off-roaders as usually there are relatively fewer couples doing this.
“They are far better heading off alone and doing their own thing – perhaps spending some quality time with other travellers, but not long enough for their space to be invaded.”
Based on a provision list of specs caravancampingsales has seen, the proposed ‘Tinderbox’ will tick a lot of singles boxes.
Just like the popular singles web site Tinder has taken the stigma out of dating, so the compact, single-axle Tinderbox is expected to make the lone traveller less anti-social and accepted.
Some of the proposed features include:
• A single transverse bed across the rear of the van, saving interior space and hence cleaning
• A larger than usual sink, allowing dishes to pile up – a feature requested by many male travellers
• A single towel rail (a delete option for those preferring to leave towels on the floor), a single-seater dinette and a smaller than usual hot water service
• No wardrobe
• A removable top-loading beer fridge, rather than a built-in upright model.
A lone female traveller version with extra security features such as a security screen door, panic alarm and a ‘Mace rack’ is also expected to be offered.
Lone Wolf Caravans of Singleton is taking orders for M & F versions of the Tinderbox from April 1, with specific L, G, B, T I and Q versions to follow, based on demand.
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Written byMichael Browning
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