I need to understand why people still keep giving that man money. Willingly. It’s mind boggling.

Motorcycle (and backpacking) camper here, so right there are my credentials for being able to shove a camping loadout into a vehicle.

For $3000, you can buy an entire high end backpacking setup, and also be able to use it without the presence of your stupid truck. And when I say entire, I mean it: A nice free standing tent you could probably pitch inside the truck bed if you had some creativity and really wanted to, a premium cot or inflatable pad, very competent sleeping bag, backpack, stove, water filter, hiking poles, a chair, a nice knife, the whole lot.

With change left over. I just added up the full list prices of everything in my core loadout and you could buy it all (including the backpack, which you don’t need for truck camping) for $1418.82.

So just do that instead.

The Rivian that was announced a few days ago has a nice feature, rear seats and the two front ones all fold flat so that it can fit a twin air mattress in the cabin. That seems a better solution than … whatever the fuck this is.