The Ford Transit Customized is not the one van gaining a space-maximizing inflatable pop-up roof design – the Volkswagen Transporter T7 will get one, too. Quick-growing German RV model Rhön Camp presents the primary Volkswagen camper van that includes a Freescape inflatable roof, pairing the rooftop air tent with a extra everlasting California-style inside. It reckons this one the “Final” in Volkswagen van life.
If Rhön’s holding sincere, it already had a fairly assured tackle what the “final” California-style Volkswagen camper van seemed like, having launched its Ultimate van a few years back. Then, the innovators at Freescape got here alongside and ruined the whole lot with their rooftop tent-like increasing blow-out roof. Now, Rhön has needed to redefine the VW Final camper van across the new space-maximizing pop-top resolution.
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Freescape had stated it could offer inflatable-roof Volkswagen camper vans of its personal down the road, a reasonably simple endeavor now that the Transporter shares the identical platform as Ford’s Transit Customized. However earlier than it will get round to that, Rhön has taken its inflatable roof idea and built-in it right into a Volkswagen camper van of its personal.
Rhön debuted its all-new Final van a number of halls over from Freescape’s exhibit at CMT 2026, giving the inflatable roof a complete totally different look atop a Volkswagen T7. As with Freescape’s Ford, the massive benefit right here will not be a lot in inflation over strut-assisted lifting – the latter is simply as straightforward and nicely sooner, however in giving the van everlasting standing top when arrange as a base camp.
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Typical pop-up sleeper roofs function a mattress platform that have to be lifted as much as clear standing top in the course of the day, so it’s important to select both standing room or mattress entry. By making a tent that expands off the aspect of the van, Freescape’s inflatable sleeper roof shifts the 140 x 200-cm (55 x 79-in) mattress to the aspect, leaving the raised standing house over the van flooring open all day lengthy. The mattress is at all times accessible for a noon nap, with out having to restrict inside headroom.
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As for the ground plan, Rhön’s furnishings look fairly much like Freescape’s, using sustainable development supplies and recycled textiles. Nevertheless, Rhön does away with the cross-sliding kitchen block/flex lounge format in favor of a extra conventional California-like flooring plan with fastened driver-side kitchen, rear seating that folds right into a double mattress, and a full-height storage console on the rear. That rear console incorporates a cubby simply contained in the tailgate housing the outside bathe system.
As a substitute of an built-in rear bench, Rhön installs two particular person seats atop flooring rails for elevated flexibility. The seats can transfer ahead and backward, arrange at totally different locations, fold individually to create a solo mattress, and take away utterly. They’ll then fold down collectively to create the decrease double mattress, permitting the van to sleep as much as 4 individuals.
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Rhön provides the Final a gas-free vitality platform, putting in a 200-Ah lithium leisure battery, 3,000-W inverter, 50-A cost booster and hookup for obtainable photo voltaic panels. That system powers the induction cooktop, 60-L Dometic fridge, 12V air compressor to inflate the sleeper roof, LED lighting and extra with out the necessity for burning diesel or propane. All Final vans embrace a 24-L recent water tank and 18-L waste water tank.
The Final camper van begins at €74,990 (approx. US$88,600) in base spec when constructed atop a 109-hp front-wheel-drive Transporter. Obtainable upgrades embrace extra highly effective engines, all-wheel-drive, a Webasto heater for camp, 200 to 400 watts of photo voltaic, underbody skid safety, and a Clesana X1 moveable dry-sealing bathroom.
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