Land Rover uses new Range Rover to tow Airstream roundtrip from England to Morocco

Jeffrey N. Ross — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:03:00 EST

Filed under: SUV, Europe, Land Rover, Luxury

We see all sorts of publicity stunt road trips, but few seem as cool as spending 11 days driving almost 4,000 miles in a 2013 Range Rover Autobiography and sleeping each night in an equally plush Airstream trailer. This is exactly what Ben Samuelson, formerly of TVR, and his PR team did to show off the new Range Rover while driving it from England to Morocco and back.

Towing the 5,300-pound Airstream was as much to show off the towing abilities of the Range Rover as it was to provide luxurious sleeping accommodations, which Samuelson compared to a boutique hotel. One of the more interesting aspects of this story is Land Rover's claim that the most popular tow vehicle of choice by European Airstream owners is a Land Rover product.

Scroll down for Land Rover's press release about this opulent road trip.

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Airstream unveils toy-toting PanAmerica trailer

Dan Roth — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:29:00 EST

Filed under: Etc., Toys/Games, Lifestyle

Click above for more images of the Airstream PanAmerica

Being able to complain that hauling your 34-foot Airstream around means leaving your full-dresser Harley at home for vacation strikes us as an enviable problem to have. For those of you with a surfeit of high-end toys and a longing to hit the road, Airstream has you covered with its new PanAmerica model. Being a high-end product itself, the PanAmerica sports Airstream's trademark aluminum construction and mid-century modern styling that ensures it's perpetually in vogue. The best part of the trailer, however, is that it sports a garage in its aft compartment that can swallow a pair of motorcycles, some ATVs, or our current favorite, a red Radio Flyer wagon. The garage has an 11-foot depth and is comprehensively equipped with tie downs and wheel clamps so your scooter will stay put while you drag everything over mountain passes.

The dragging part will require a pretty beefy tow vehicle. You'll want your pickup to have the largest available engine to cope with the 11,500-pound gross weight rating. Once you've docked your rig at camp, it's nothing but traditional Airstream class inside, meaning stainless appliances, indirect lighting, and snazzy cabinetry. It all looks like some kind of 1950's Brasserie, and if we had 85 large to drop on a jet-age home away from home (and a truck brawny enough to pull it), we'd be blogging from various bucolic undisclosed locations on a daily basis.

Gallery: Airstream PanAmerica

[Source: squob.com]

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