re: The Aerovault MKII Car Trailer Thanks for sharing. Quite the trailer!
Still $26000 is a lot for a trailer. In the USA you can get a fully loaded Volkswagen and get change too.
Of course, few would use it to transport their beloved classic cars which could be worth easily an order of magnitude more
Still their website says: Quote:
We heard many people complain about their costs for towing their heavy "bread box" trailers
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When you can afford to own a Classic Car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and buy a $26000 dollar trailer, do you really worry about the cost of petrol?
Also, at this price tag, you have to tow this thing around the US coast to coast several times over, before the lower fuel consumption price tag makes up for the purchase price of the trailer.
The brochure is very nice and even shows how it is built. Initially I thought it was pretty low and I wondered if even a regular sedan would fit. That’s just an optical illusion. The brochure shows how tall it really is. Unless your classic is a landrover or similar, everything else should fit in well.
I have no idea about the market for these trailers. But when we lived in the USA we knew plenty of people who would be seriously interested in such a trailer. I was a member of the Jaguar Club. Each local chapter organises a concour d’elegance every year so there are dozens of these around the country. And some members would literally travel from one to the next throughout the season with their beloved classic E-type or Mk150 or whatever on a trailer.
Our rules stipulated that you had to drive your car onto the concours d’elegance ground under its own power. So usually there was a whole pile of these and other sorts of trailer in a nearby car park.
Jeroen |