As ugly as the Aztek is, it's gorgeous next to that stainless steel doorstop.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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The funniest part about this is that the Aztec is usually considered "ugly".
But when you compare it to a cybertruck... It looks like a masterpiece.
No joke, it's basically a vehicle to rest your eyes upon in such context.
Here's a shortish video showing setup.. Man it looks like a fiddly process.
That looks insane. It's held up by clamping onto the metal flashing of the door, instead of to the frame, the flashing held on by fucking glue. I also love how they show the electric plugs, but you have to use a bicycle pump to inflate.
LOL, all that electricity in the "truck" and they give you a manual bike pump to inflate the damn thing‽
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Most trucks can accommodate some sort of official or unofficial tent. Granted, the Aztec was, I believe, designed with that in mind. I feel like the cybertruck tent failure was likely a combination of poor design and the lack of critical thinking that a person who purchased a cybertruck has. Regardless, I prefer my canvas tent on the ground. There is plenty of space, no climbing, and I can have a stove (heat only) for winter excursions.
And the biggest advantage is that you don't have to take it down to go on day trips while you're camping. I think the rooftop and vehicle tents only make sense if you're going to be sleeping somewhere different every night.
So.... what people do when backpacking?
You have to be more specific. What part of the comment are you talking about?
The part that people pqcking up everyday to move to a another location to camp?
I think they were talking about how you might park in a parking lot, put on your backpacks, hike to a nice spot for camping, set up camp, and then spend a few days there, making side excursions to scenic points or to hunt/fish if that's your thing, leaving the tents in place. Maybe one stays and tends the fire each day.
Yes and? Backpackers can pack everything up in the morning and setup at night. The key is to pack only what you need. If you want to leave your tent setup at a camp unattended, just dont leave anything you want stolen.
Yes and a member of a backpack group can go back to the car and make a beer or tampon run without having to pack up the whole tent. Unlike car-tent people. Which was the point.
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Even then, they're harder to get in and out of never mind hauling your things up and down. I really don't get why they're poplar at all.
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I miss my old Pontiac Aztec, I had this tent and inflatable mattress. This cars truck space was huge!!
Honestly it was the ugliest car, but also the best car.
Center consoles air conditioning "nipples" were the best.
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As a former boy scout, my least favorite kind of person to go camping with is anyone who never bothered to figure out how any of their gear works. They inevitably show up in the dark and gripe about stuff like it's in Swedish Ikea directions format, start off the first day grumpy as hell cause they froze their asses off on the hard ground and didn't get any sleep. What's worse is this turns them against the prospect of ever visiting the outdoors again and they leave the gear to rot in their garage instead of donating it to someone more responsible and with a more enthusiastic joie de vivre than them, namely small, poor children.
If you can't figure out how to build a tent (in the dark or not), camping clearly is not for you, or anything that requires the mental capability of an adult for that matter. That shit really is not hard.
Seriously. I don't think I've ever encountered anything more complex than: extendo poles make X, tent clips go on X, stake into ground.
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IKEA instructions are clear, concise, and complete. A better comparison would be Chinese flatpack trash from Wayfair with poorly photocopied diagrams, inscrutable Engrish, and missing steps.
Based off my limited experience, Wayfair furniture is intentionally designed to be as frustrating as possible to assemble.
Very precise. I do technical drawings for fabricators and Ikea is the sort of gold standard, for exploded assemblies views anyhow. What I was getting at was another layer of insufferability which is the people that complain about instructions which can't be any more clear, just because they are bellyachers.
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I am not into camping so I'm not sure, but isn't the point to get away from density/people/etc? There's so many cars there. Am I missing something (aside from an appreciation for nature up close)?
depressingly it's very very popular (at least here in sweden) to go """"camping"""" at what is basically trailer parks but for house cars (not literal mobile homes) where you stay a couple of nights at a time at most.
It just feels like the typical suburban mindset really.
I never understood it. Just go sleep in the RV in your driveway, why drive it a few hours to pay to park in someone else's multi-car driveway?
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The Society of the Spectacle talks about how this phenomenon fits into larger societal pathologies.
In the US those are "RV Parks". They're pretty good if you you're traveling with kids and want to give them the opportunity to meet other kids and play with whatever amenities the park has. Camping in a state or national park is better if you want to more space and a more natural experience. Areas in some nattional forests are available to camp in for free as long as you don't stay in the same place for more than a week and clean up after yourself.
We have this shit in Canada, too. Millions of square kilometers of wilderness, and people camp on top of each other and run their generators for the air conditioning and TV in their $250,000 RV they use 2 weekends out of the year.
Fucking weirdos.
Festivals are a thing too you know
Camping is just sleeping in a tent/close to nature.
Whether there are people around has nothing to do with it.
Car camping is its own thing with its own distinct culture from backpackers who hike out into the wilderness to camp.
It mentions a bike ride the next day, so it's probably just something that's out in the middle of nowhere and starts pretty early. They'll often have an area for participants to camp for the night instead of driving out in the early morning.
I think it was more of a weekend bike trailing event, since cyberbaby left before "the bike ride".
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a $3000 car tent? there is no fucking way.
For one third of that you can have a huge deluxe family room sized tent that would be 5000 times more durable and easier to put up. This is the Apple product of tents without the quality or ease of use.
so the modern apple product of tents
Rooftop tents quite comfortably hit that figure - but this is probably outclassed by a couple of pool noodles and a tarp.
Tarp technology is a lifesaver.
here I was, thinking $400 for a hammock was a lot.
It is! $100ish for an eno hammock and tarp and you're hammock camping like an emperor. If you're not a beast, a canvas tarp and some rope makes a good enough hammock for probably less than $30.
good enough isn't good enough for me though. I got a OneWind hammock that cost me like $60, along with their excellent tarp. i even splurged and upgraded it with some dutchware fittings like the waspz for the tarp and an adjustable ridgeline.
the adjustable rideline was probably the best thing I ever bought for camping, getting it centered exactly over where I want takes about two seconds and one try.
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Probably first time doing it and he didn’t even try at home before going camping. When those foldable kayaks started popping out on Amazon, I saw a couple arriving with two at a lake. They spent like 20 minutes trying to assemble them and ended up giving up.
The first thing I did when I got my inflatable kayak was to inflate it in my living room for the reason you are describing.
Nah, you did it because it's fun to have a kayak in the living room! Learning how was just a bonus.
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An epic in six tweets.
I wonder if dude actually made it home, as those things aren't designed to leave pavement.
I hear he hit a 1-meter patch of ice and the cybertruck spontaneously combusted.
You jest, but their warranty is literally invalid off pavement.