Micro Builder Launches Toyota Sienna Pop-Up Camper in U.S. – RVBusiness – Breaking RV Industry News
Following more than a decade of impressive work creating small camper vans for the Korean market, Unicamp has been quickly building up a U.S. presence with a growing lineup of affordable minivan pop-tops, according to a report by New Atlas.
Last year, it entered the market with the Kia Carnival pop-top, launched in collaboration with Las Vegas-area dealership Caleche Customs, and now the two introduce the even more versatile Toyota Sienna pop-up camper, an affordable sleeper van solution with an economical hybrid powertrain and available all-wheel drive — and owners don’t even have to give up their eight-passenger family vans.
At roughly $50,000 to start when it launched in 2023 (new minivan and roof), Unicamp’s Kia Carnival sleeper MPV really helped to fill the glaring void of small, simple, affordable camper van options left in the wake of the discontinuation of every last small and midsize van on the American market (e.g. the Nissan NV200, Ford Transit Connect, Mercedes Metris, etc).
With their new Toyota Sienna pop-top, Unicamp USA and Caleche now fill another void, offering the market’s only pop-up AWD hybrid mini-camper solution. Like the small vans that disappeared off the market, the Kia Carnival lacks a coveted all-wheel-drive option, as do all other US minivans except for the Chrysler Pacifica. So buyers looking for a more surefooted all-weather camper van have long been left to shop large, expensive models based on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter or Ford Transit.
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