$67K ‘Doomsday Trailer’ Combines All the Worst Elements of Modern Overland Culture

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2023-05-22 05:00:04

So many off-road vehicles and accessories subscribe to the aesthetic of being a nuke at a knife fight. Calm down and enjoy the fresh air already.

If you're so scared of the world that you can't go camping without bulletproof glass and surveillance cameras, stay home. But if you really need to advertise that fear with a bright-orange parade float, you can hook this "Extinction Level Event" Doomsday Trailer up to your truck for about $70,000.

There's a heap of overland-oriented tools and accessories being hyped right now as fans of the scene spool up for the Overland Expo show in Arizona this weekend. When the ELE came across my feed this week (short for "Extinction Level Event," implying apocalypse survivability) I thought it was a parody. I mean, the spec sheet talks about bear-spray mist to keep "bandits at bay" and claims "it can handle whatever campers might encounter, from bears to wildfires to social unrest," which, no, if you leave this thing parked in a wildfire it's going to turn into an oven after the tires melt.

Mammoth Overland out of Woodinville, Washington does seem to have a mostly nice catalog of pretty cool and well-made-looking off-road camp trailers. This thing in particular just happens to be the ultimate embodiment of everything that sucks about modern off-road and overland culture.