Practical Motorhome Doubleback VW Camper review
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Practical Motorhome's Jeremiah Mahadevan runs the rule over the stunning, innovative Doubleback camper, based on the venerable long-wheel base VW T5. UPDATE (13/05/2013): Danbury Motorcaravans has released a five-seater Doubleback.
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Maybe RUclips recommends this because campers and motorhomes are regaining greater popularity these Covid days when hotels are closed.
this is going to be on everyone's recommended again
This was on my reccomend.
modern day nostradamus right there ;-)
Maybe
Yep recommend for me now
All recommendations result of RUclips's algorithm.. We like few videos.. RUclips shows more such videos
This was extremely well made and insightful. Highly recommended. Great job. It took great insight and talent to produce this! Five stars!
Perfect!just hope the interior get some upgrades.
I love how well it blends in when it's not extended, and still offers sleeping space for two people. That's good if your roadtrip involves staying a few days in a city and you don't want to wake up to a cop.
It'd be better if it had the option for two more seats though. Maybe detachable/foldup seats in that big storage area in the beginning. EDIT: checked their website. They recently added a model that seats 5 people.
Also the price is so high that you could get a decent conventional camper and a small size regular car instead.
True
That's the quietest and yet the best episode of Pimp my ride I've seen so far !
Yo Dog! Check deez rims!
2x travel 4x sleep = they made a van for swingers!
Two can travel, but you can sleep four. Picking hookers for the night.
@@vaiolover1997 Haha a pervert spotted...
@@blueplanetltd.5483 I have never picked up hookers or paid for sex. With this virus going around, I might as well go out swinging with my " bat."
A man can dream right?
@@vaiolover1997 Lol...was kidding bro...
@@blueplanetltd.5483 I am an American man, " pervert" is a huge compliment!!!
Btw, I hope this virus thingy dies down, I have voluptuous Moroccan girlfriend waiting for me in the other continent. Lol
Unbelievable . I like his facial expression.
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This video is 8 years old, and we never saw this amazing engineering come to the US?
British engineering at it's finest
T Man VW is a GERMAN company.
@@fredflintstone2234 Who modified it? You guessed it, Brits!
@@BPJJohn
I googled it. This idea went away after two prototypes were assembled. It is not clear if these two prototypes were ever made road-worthy (legal to drive).
The company just quietly dissappeared. Their website and Facebook are still up, but inquiries are not being answered, and last posts were made years ago.
So... methinks it's not the best example of British engineering 🤷🏼
Someone in the RUclips staff is trying to sell his Motorhome Doubleback VW Camper
The only true comment here
Its pretty good though.
"It sleeps 4 people!"
"How many does it sit?"
"It only sits 2 people, but it sleeps 4!"
Clearly a swinger-mobile.
Bruh😂😂😂😂 underrated comment
You spoke my mind. I knew somebody must have the same question as I do.
It sleeps 4, but fucks 8!
🤣🤣🤣🤣
But wait, if you get the bench seat, it seats 3 people !!! but sleeps 4 , wait what?
Thanks, RUclips! Didn’t like the vehicle, but I love this guy! I wish, all people were like him! Our planet would be so different then! He is just so positive! Nothing negative inside! A pure soul!!! Namaste! 🙏 💖✨
8 year old video
RUclips : Let's recommend this already old product to everyone 😂
Yep, no idea why this popped up - but I am glad it did! Never seen one of these before. I thought it was just a CAD model on the thumbnail, but to see that this actually exists brought joy to my engineering heart.
Yeah no doubt.. Wow.. Sure wouldn't want to recommend President Trumps Accomplishments aye.. But 8 month old material.. Now that's worth spreading. RUclips sucks anymore. Wish I had a place to go to that actually valued America and our values. Instead of the bull shit we get from it.
It supposed to recommend videos you haven't seen before
I thought I had seen that exact same car ages ago and now I know what hahaha
Why not, all the political news has been removed by left wing executives. Just feed them some old videos for now.
Would have been nice if you would've shown us what the double bed above the van looks like.
I agree.
→_→
They really could have made a better video showing us way more detail.
Scott H: PERHAPS if you went to their website you would see ALL the specs, more details & more photos. Figure it out man!
SimsstasH: PERHAPS if you went to their website you would see ALL the specs, more details & more photos. Figure it out man!
The presenter sounds so calm and humble
Just imagine how the price drops, due to depreciation and many of them most likely already beeing sold second hand by now...
I need one, its the perfect companion and shelter, I dont care if it has some scratches!
This is the coolest camper I've ever seen.
I love this guys smile it's mental
Ultra efficient and practical. I used vw campers for many years. Loved them.
Me too
My God it's like a real Transformer. Optimus VW
I knw your channel
I thought it was a new video
And I looked at description and I was shocked this video released 8 years ago and RUclips recommended it for me in 2020....thanks RUclips
Liked the car
8 years later, RUclips suddenly recommended it for me. God knows why, because I have no interest in campers :D
me to
Same
Same for me. And I watched and I am even reading some comments now. Time to go to bed, evidently.
i wonder if YT is selling recommendations to companies
but i want one see get a ringer
Self, remember: smile and pause at the end of each shot.
Dont forget about speaking in an excited manner
Indians HAVE to behave in a superior manner. Dont forget it
7 year old video
RUclips: hey, let’s recommend this already old product to everyone
The Conspiracy is real!
But you can't say you didn't like it ^^
I have 50,000 and still cant afford it.
its great tho :)
T5 never gets old
Best camper idea I've ever seen. Best for a couple who invite other campers for a night. Not practical for a traveling family.
Couples who invite other couples? So swingers
Michael Newman Quite possibly revolutionizing the swinger lifestyle as one would better recognize another.
why would you travel with a family?
make the bench seat against the wall in the back move like a back and fourth like the blade on a pocket knife so it can be moved into position behind the two front seats and with seat belts and you will have a normal amount of safe seating for people while driving.
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Hi from Germany! :-) I´m killing time watching interestiing stuff during my hotel & my campsite are shut down. Stay healthy!
Amazing piece of equipment, but park your camper 1 week at the oceanside and all the blown in sand will scratch up and destroy the sliding mechanism easily....
use a bucket of water before you slide it in......
@@Thedupernerd 3thgggvgggghjm
Mega praktyczna konstrukcja, w sam raz na długie podróże :)
What a great idea .And the presenter cheered me up with his happy face.
One little accident and it will never work right again.
Similar to any RV, that's what insurance is for
Did he say 55000 £? The Van includet? 😱
The heavy Back door mounted on this fiber part could produce some problems too after a while...anyway...a lot of smart brain in it.
4 ppl can sleep in it,only 2 can travel,interesting
***** YES
arine
And enough storage for food and water only for one
They addressed this problem. Just watched another video where they have added another seat with belts.
JoeCnNd to the roof?
Yesterday i was thinking such rear cabin technology and today you tube recommend this video to me
@@goodlife7012 😂😁
Checking back again in 2020. Is this ever got released?
Hi
@@sachinw7925 This
@The Green Man wtf it is real
I have three dollars
+Call Me Dougan i have 6
+Call Me Dougan i'll buy two of this, one for me and one for you.
+Call Me Dougan
just get a small lone from your dad.... Like Trump
+Hung Doan make it 3, ima need one too
Wow I watched a random video and I found dougan. hey.
8 years ago My God this is really amazing......
Really cool design ! If this would be cheaper I would go for it...
Finally a design to be compact during travelling !
Agreed
A wonderfully informative review of such an amazing vehicle! Thank You!!!
One of the coolest vehicle I ever saw. Its amazing and honestly the cost is not that expensive.
just another comment. great game.ruclips.net/video/grQ8qkhjf-0/видео.html
just 2 tweaks would make this thing practical: 1) seating for at least 5 passengers, and 2) possibility of unloading the cabin on stilts, and use the van to move from the campsite independently.
Man, this is the first Indian ethnicity man with such a gorgeous mixture of american and english accents!
Yes absolutely fr u
So true
Do not judge someone else’s past; you don’t know your future
Do you know the beauty's of other language part from American or your English or you European languages. Theirs language is out there 10 thousand years old gorgeous languages part from your 100years American 1000 years English history.
@@nazarrabi1585 Most normal functioning language is Russian for me :)
One of the smartest camper vans I’ve ever seen
I imagine folding it back in and than.
“For Fucks Sake I Forgot My Phone On Th Bench”😂
N my weed
I read this in a British accent
Hello from Apr 5, 2020 during the COVID19. Who else is here? lol
Francisco Montano I am here. Hi from rural Japan!
@@peterpayne2219Hi from Greece
Peter Payne hi from Essex in the uk
Northern California.
North Carolina
They have updated the specs on the website and it now has 4-5 seats with seatbelts
You can sleep four, but can only travel with two? That speaks for itself on how NOT practical that thing is. «ok kids. Mom and dad are taking the van. You kids take your bicycles and join us a week later. We'll have places for you to sleep.» lol
Moi MacArt
What solution do you propose for it? Also there is really nothing stopping another 2 people just sitting in the back, even if there are no seatbelts.
No seat belts is really about the most stupid idea I've seen in a moving vehicle. And it is against the law here, and in a lot of countries. My suggestion would be to rethink it a little, and have to more SAFE seating. If they can come up with something as genius as what they have done so far. They can come up with two more seats. The design just doesn't seem complete yet. And yes, sleeping more people than it can safely and legally carry isn't that bright. But maybe is it something for swingers? Who knows? :-)
Moi MacArt
I wasn't saying the company would do it, I just meant if the people driving were okay with it its not like there aren't other seats. Of course if they came across a cop that would end in a jiffy.
Moi MacArt school buses... just sayin'
Tess Random Oh, I agree with you. And still can't figure that one out.
Excelente adaptação.
Mesmo depois de 8 (oito) anos, e ainda será daqui a muitos.
-PARABÉNS !!!
If you're in America go back to whatever country you came
wow 8 years ago and this van is still so cool perfect for California .
This is great...now I can finally live in a van down by the river.
If you lend me one of those I will drive it around the world for you and share the adventure with the world (just like I am currently doing in my Classic VW).
Wow ... even I want one of these and I'm a landy nut!
***** Oh Dan, if you only had the slightest idea how much effort it takes to produce that kind of content....plus its not like I keep my vehicles, I give them away to my subscribers.
+Matt Allen q.Q0
since they have gotten this far they should make it a boat too
Kombi Life good idea
Okay, let's agree to meet here again in 8 years, when it is recommended again.
yah...i'll be here ; - )
Yeah that's $71,000 dollars you can keep it and buy a slightly used Mercedes compact mobile home that has a shower, toilet , table and sleeps six that gets 24 mpg my dad did for $50,000 with only 20,000 miles on it..
Carlos Villa in our generation the generation that pays through the ass for everything and die in dept just like the Founding Fathers predicted indentured servants to a banking system they didn't fuck with the original Patriots but they sure laid generational siege on the following generations. Hey get a printing press , get unlimited protection from your Federalist friends make them rich beyond belief as you need loyalists for your scam , print paper Monopoly money and charge interest to the masses Eureka. You'll always be on top and never worked a day in your life just fun and leisure and travel.
I agree,a van without a shower,toilet is not practical!
Selena Beaulieu .
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Great concept. Warm weather only I would suggest.
OH im getting this then moving to Cali that would look great in front of a million dollar beach house
Can I come with you?
No you will only make the homeless people more sad with it.
The owners of the million dollar beach house wouldn't let you park it there.
@@beedoubleu547 yooooo there is something called a joke.
Hahaha, pourquoi pas une maison de plage de $200,000 ? Est-elle TROP CHEAP ?? ;-)
It's a real world transformer car.
*Transformate :-)*
Car? That car Expensive !
Amazing 😉
The idea is nice but the designer must have been out of his mind having only a two seater for a camping Van and as an add on one more traveling seat. What about a family? The old California camper van was far better designed then this although this has that extra roll out space it ain't no good if you can't take the kids!
the others need to commute or drive a motorcycle
Is that a life plan...'It ain't no good if you can't take the kids.' You stuck with them for life, or plan to have some grown-up time, enjoying your own music and not having to explain , 'We aren't there yet...' every 10 miles. Your life...
Oh my gaaawwwd I want one. That's the best thing I've everrr seen 😁
You can only seat two people, but the impressive pop-out dealie at the back helps you pick up a couple more people so you can sleep four.
This is amazing can we buy this in France
What's the point of it only seating 3 people but sleeps 4
Skersaroony guests
Watch the 2013 version
MIL has to ride on the roof.
2degucitas I ride in style on my broom. 🦉
What's the point of you asking?
In case some surfer weirdo dude on the californian coast you know, needs somewhere to crash......cause he's cold........and potentially hungry
It’s a great idea, and beautifully presented. I love the ways it extends. I just think the sticking point is those limited belted seats. It needs 4 at least. However think it could be improved by further development. My VW camper has the 3 front seats but the double one is very cramped and uncomfortable , and my 6ft plus friend doesn’t fit in it. The extra space is essentially moving the existing bed back, and giving more lounge space - but you can’t fit 3 point seatbelts to side bench seats. Nor is there much storage for the additional space. It would surely make more sense to add further belted seats, and perhaps a porta potti storage compartment? I’d want to tinker with the design. it’s also a lot of money (like anything VW camper braided lol).
they didn't show the overhead bed
Xd I don't think there is one...
What about when the sleeping quarter is slided out, it is raning outside. Then if you slide it back again and the moist becomes trapped in the car. That is risk for mold and other stuff. What have they done to prevent that?
+Annelie Elisabeth Molin Given its' a two-person van that sleeps 4, I expect that both the surfaces will be nicely waterproofed courtesy of all the semen sprayed around the place during the daily orgies had in this thing. For 55k, you would hope that anyone who buys this has a really, REALLY good time in it.
0:28 I just went full quantum inspector mode and noticed different tires on the left and right side. Thanks for reading this meaningful comment.
I used to watch this video for like 7 years now
7 years above video. But, still I didn't find any one on the road.. Still available..?
Total praise including van
love it need but it need some backup power solar panel
and a sunroof on the slide out part, above the bed
What a pleasant voice and great smile you have, Jeremiah! Thank you for explaining this awesome vehicle. Do they import to United States ?
If they still made these I'd 100% be in the market for one.
$80,000 US is a bit steep for a modified van with no bathroom.
It's in the U.K. , where everything is much more expensive than the U.S.
55000 smh why don't u just renovate a bus while you're at it
I swear I'm trying could buy a 5th wheel and a truck for this amount
Very nice and the Anker is very happy and friendly .good man good job
Amazing British engineering & conversion, but for £55k I would rather have a top end little used Hymer or similar for that price. Though the smaller & more manouverable Transporter is very appealing because of such.
RUclips so weird then I need to wait about 8 to 10 years for my video to be recommended for everyone crazy 😝
WoW Mahadevan this is rocking
Useful for retired couples.
Um, no.
For retarded couples.
I WANT ONE !!!! WOW!!!
ahahahahhahah wait bro for that you need's money
:)
Ok , send on my way then
perfect companion and shelter,
What's it gonna look like after sitting all nite in a wind storm? 😨
Amazing Love it I'll bet this is Expensive...
Perfect!just hope the interior get some upgrades.
I randomly remembered this video today and spent half an hour looking for it ☠️
Round 2?
£55k for this. Let's say the van is £22k new. Where has the other £33k gone? Even if it's as much as 250 man hours at £20 per hour then that is £5k of labour. £12k of parts makes £17k plus van at an imaginary £22k (won't be that much) makes £39k. Even if VAT had to be added (unsure) that makes £46,800!!
+hoffwell
solution- stop bitching and build your own
+hoffwell Since you're doing the math, you should look at new RVs / motorhomes in the £55k range. They are made with cheap materials(they will tell you "we use the lightest weight materials we can find"), and after a short time they begin to have leaks in roof and trouble with the doors opening.(This happens with even more expensive RVs, due to the body shifting around the door from travel, so that the door and latch never quite function right any more. One of the design ideas here is that you can park the vehicle in most parking garages, then slide it out and pop-up elsewhere when ready to camp.
So... your final bean-counting came up with £46,800? Maybe you should fill a bag with that much money and go offer that to buy one at a dealership. They might just accept your offer. And that my friend is a win-win!
I need it.
한번 상상 해 본 적이 있는데, 실제 있었다니, 놀랍네요.
요즘 SUV 차에 적용해 본다면, 굳이 저렇게 많이 빼지 않고, 50cm 정도만 뺄 수 있게 만들어도
굉장히 실용적일 것 같아요.
it's probably illegal in the US.
+MrSafetymeeting Us american are smart for 85k US you could buy something 10x more capable over here. VW has you guys by the balls.
+MrSafetymeeting you guys sound pretty crazy throwing around all these generalities you know. Not very many things or people in America or Europe fit your ridiculous stereotypes.
+Digimutant is a 5 cylinder DIESEL chucklehead......gets 25 to 30 mpg
+MrFrostystorm That's 55,000 Pounds actually=about 80,000 Dollars-Ridiculous-they won't sell many in the UK either!
yeah, such b.s.
Did he say 55,000 pounds.
That a lot of money.
That about 85,000 dollars.
Too much.
It's cheaper then a high trim esclade
and even more here in Canada!!!
Under $72,000 USD in 2018
I know. For that price you can buy an rv with a full kitchen and bathroom.
We're ruining Britain with Brexit, specially so you can buy these at a dollar per pound. Bargain, eh? Shame you're sending us back T'rump & his chlorinated chicken...answers to the name of Ivanka?
the love i give is to extender the van. surprisingly
Why, youtube? Why?
8 years later, I'm thinking about getting this. 🤔
I wish too
Why Not Modify The Front 2 Seats, Into A American 1 Long Seat, In Many Farmer Pickups.
THE Back Of The Seat, Can Lift &, Slide To Occupy The Front Of The Seat, Allowing For A Complete Reverse 3 Seat Bench Seat, Facing The Vans Interior.!
Much Easier &, Practical Alternative To Faffing About With Swivel Seats.
(Like The Fridge-Door, Opening From Either Side).!
Excellent Idea, &, Concept, Bravo.!
👍
you had me there till the price
No ventilation....the windows don't open.
The tailgate dose ,the driver and passenger dose.
the windows will not open..I agree bur ac would be ther na....
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Eduardo Medina
The idea is nice, but in my opinion, there are some not insignificant drawbacks. Remember to carefully clean the outside because otherwise, all the dirt is brought inside the van, right in the cavity where the whole system flows. I give an example. I have the back completely out because I'm still. I am in a camping area under some trees. It starts to rain, and the leaves fall. The retractable rear gets all wet, the leaves stick to the roof, and so does the dirt. I must remember that before closing I have to clean everything. But if this is not possible, why am I still in the heavy pouring rain and have to leave? I find myself carrying the dirt inside the van. Nice idea, but it leaves me with some doubts.
I would imagine that funeral homes would like this. It looks like a casket.
I think it looks like a VW with "roids" LOL
Now jusy imagine thr cost if that thing breaks down
I was so happy that this amazing van is going to release soon, then I saw the comment... kudos to youtube 🤔
if they just threw a solar panel on top, it'd be perfect.
professorbland what for? it would generate such a small amount of electricity that it wouldn't be worth it.
Ага, и тогда цена станет 100000$ и тогда её, точно, ни кто не купит.
Yeah, and then the price will be $ 100,000, and then it just, no one will buy it.
ThingsDemystified
mobile, laptop...
Ben De Raes
green apple
Well, this is a bit pointless because when you get into the van thing you're bent over and as you move into the next extension you're on your hands and knees.
the roof rises doesn't it.