Toyota Tacoma camper’s floor-to-ceiling windows let the outdoors in

It was beginning to really feel like pop-up pickup toppers (like this one or this one) have been destined to look fairly comparable from model to model, however alongside come the innovators at Rossmönster to introduce the most unusual design the ever-growing pop-topper market has seen but. Not solely is its all-new Lagom camper certainly one of the only a few hard-wall toppers on the market, nevertheless it expands with a high-rising roof supported by full-height entrance and rear windows that make it a rooftop observatory optimized for taking in the native surroundings.

Rossmönster introduced its arrival into the overland truck market final year with the extremely succesful Baja, a Ford F-150-based, hard-sided pop-up overland truck with a heat, cozy ski lodge of an inside. It’s positioned the new Lagom Series as the entry level to its overlanding line, appropriate with smaller pickup vans like the Toyota Tacoma and Jeep Gladiator. In transitioning over to a smaller, less complicated truck camper, the Colorado company has caught with a completely hard-sided design, becoming a member of fellow topper model Hiatus in eschewing easy, in style cloth building in favor of laborious partitions that fold accordion-style.

The aluminum Lagom topper folds down good and flat whereas driving, then lifts into form in seconds with the assist of two giant strut arms on all sides. The entrance and rear sides embrace folding central helps and are accomplished by swing-down windows that latch to the ceiling throughout transit. The results of the design is a tall, spacious rooftop tenting field that erases the divide between inside and outside. Rather than merely peeping out a small mesh window, Lagom campers get bed-to-ceiling views, back and front.

The high-rising Lagom pop-top clears 6.7 toes (204 cm) of inside standing top over the pickup mattress and three toes (91 cm) of seated head room over the double mattress that stretches into the entrance above-cab part. The higher partitions round the mattress are upholstered for added heat and luxury, and every Lagom consists of window covers.

Beyond the mattress, Rossmönster has stored the inside clear and uncluttered with the goal of sustaining entry to the full pickup mattress to be used in hauling tenting and journey gear or for on a regular basis chores. The non-obligatory Goal Zero Yeti 1500 moveable electrical system delivers camp energy and simply removes when it is not wanted. It’s paired with as much as 200 watts of photo voltaic charging.

The Lagom Base mannequin begins at US$14,000, and the Base Plus with Yeti 1500, solar energy, MaxxAir fan and dimmable LED inside lighting begins at $17,000. A $4,000 Expedition Pack brings roof rails, MOLLE panels, an out of doors ladder and a entrance LED mild bar to both Base or Base Plus fashions. The Lagom is appropriate with 2016+ Tacomas with 5- or 6-foot beds, all Jeep Gladiator fashions, and 2015 to 2020 F-150s with 6.5-foot beds. Rossmönster is engaged on variants for extra vans and encourages events to contact it with the make/fashions they’re in outfitting. For those that’d prefer to attempt earlier than they purchase, the company presents each Gladiator and Tacoma Lagom leases from its Longmont, Colorado headquarters for $205/day.

Rossmönster tells us the common Lagom weighs between 350 and 400 lb (159 and 181 kg), relying upon the truck mannequin/mattress measurement for which it is constructed and the choices chosen by the purchaser.

Source: Rossmönster