VW Transporter DoubleBackWelsh company DoubleBack has unveiled a VW Transporter with an amazing extendable pod at the rear, turning it into a 25ft motor home.
The DoubleBack conversion is the brainchild of UK engineer Craig McCormack. It has taken him four years to develop the concept and put it on sale.
The DoubleBack Transporter, which was officially put on sale yesterday, costs £55,000 - about £25,000 more than the LWB 2.0 TDI Transporter on which it's based.
For that, buyers are getting a fully converted van, complete with a working kitchen, a pop-up roof, twin captain's chairs (or an optional bench with for a third occupant) and, of course, the extendable rear.
The electrically sliding pod extends fully in 45 seconds, features a double bed and can hold 600kg in weight. It's supported by a pair of extendable legs, which self-level so that the pod is stable regardless of the ground beneath (to a point).
The original tailgate still opens as normal, and the pod closes flush with the rear of the van. DoubleBack estimates that when retracted the pod takes up 15-20 percent of the Transporter's interior space, although when extended it's "an extra room," the company's Ed Brooks told us.
Order one now and it will take up to eight months to arrive, says DoubleBack, including a three-month VW delivery time for the van, then three-to-five months to perform the conversion, which is hand-completed by a "major motorsport company" and using over 10,000 parts.
