American Dream Comes True for Motorized OEM 27North – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Ever since Pavel Bosovik was a boy, he had his mind set on how he was going to achieve his version of the American dream – building an RV.
By the time he was in high school, his dream had evolved from crude sketches and a few rough prototypes built in his mom’s garage into the fully grown idea for the Ascender off-road motorhome.
Fast-forward to 2024 and Bosovik, 28, whose family immigrated to the United States from Ukraine, is now the founder and CEO of 27North, an RV company whose main product is the Venture Class B built on a Sprinter chassis with an amazing amount of interior space for such a product.
And, as of May 1, the Venture – which is quickly building a dealer base – will be built in a new 65,000-square-foot facility on the outskirts of Springfield, Mo., near Missouri’s Ozark Mountains and lake country, which is prime real estate for RVing and not far from the entertainment mecca that is Branson.
The new facility will include a 13-acre off-road course for customers to visit and try out their new vehicle’s capabilities, as well as 25 campsites.
27North Vice President of Sales & Marketing Gregg Beaudette estimated that 300 to 350 of the vans will roll off the production line per year. Eventually, he added, the more rugged Ascender, built on a Ford F-550 chassis, will join the line.
“I still feel like I’m in a dream,” Bosovik told RVBusiness. “I’ve just been tremendously blessed by industry leaders who have sort of taken me under their wing. And to have key players like Gregg Beaudette and Michael Compton help us keep the lights on and keep us elevating to new horizons.”
Don’t Stop Dreaming
Bosovik may have achieved a large amount of success and acceptance with 27North’s products so far, but as the dealer base expands and the company proves able to meet the demand, he said he hopes to grow to an even larger facility – as soon as in the next five years – and building over 10 units per day.
“We want to really put a strong emphasis on technologies,” Bosovik said. “On our Expedition truck, we want to put an accent on self-sustainability. Our trucks are among the tops in the world, but we want to be even better. We want to push the threshold of how self-sustainable you can be. We’re looking at recycling water to give you a longer stay, making it more fuel efficient and lighter weight.”
Looking at a newly completed 27North Venture on the factory floor, it is easy to see where such visions come from and how earlier visions for the product already have been completed.
Venture is built for off-road capabilities with features such as 525 watts of rooftop solar power that charges while the vehicle travels, as well as a powerful Lithionics battery system to provide 930-amp hours of power.
“I like to think of it as the Swiss Army Knife of vans,” said Beaudette. “It has a bit of a rugged look on the outside, but it’s all luxury on the inside.”
For anyone familiar with Class B motorhomes, it’s hard to overstate the efficient use of space that has gone into building the Venture.
First, and probably most noticeably, the back portion of the van is split nearly in half by a large storage compartment and a wet bath. The storage area is large enough to contain a downhill bicycle and a large snowboard with room to spare.
The bathroom’s shower hose can extend well outside of the cabin, allowing for someone to shower off sand or dirt before getting into the vehicle.
Inside, two small beds can convert into a larger sleeping area by dropping down a pair of adjustable tables to provide a base in the middle.
The kitchen is contained on the driver’s side of the coach with a microwave located above the beds and storage compartments with cargo netting above on both sides. With nearly 7 feet of headroom, the aisle easily passes through the entire coach.
Bosovik said he wishes he could take credit for the design of the interior of the Venture, but many of the design features and space allocations were the result of feedback from the first 100 or so customers.
