Ultimate Carp Fishing Vehicle

For those that just have to have the most recent, up to date, trendy off-road vehicle the KiraVan  (tm)is a perfect match. It's part RV, part 4 x 4, part mobile command center, and in many ways cool enough to make even the wealthiest rap stars jealous.

But best of all, with this vehicle you can fish even the most remote areas of the globe for a fort night without coming home!


Photo courtesy Brian Ferry, KiraVan, and Applied Minds LLC

The vehicle can alternate between all time 4-wheel and part-time 6-wheel drive, has 22 cameras to monitor the surroundings and can travel up to 2,000 miles on a tank of fuel.

The KiraVan™ tractor is a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog U500NA with a Mercedes Benz 6-cylinder  in-line 260HP high-efficiency intercooled turbo-diesel engine providing 700ft-lb of torque.  The chassis frame has been stretched and reinforced, a four-door composite crew cabin added, and an off-road articulating fifth-wheel trailer hitch attached.

The combined tractor and trailer unit weighs in at more than 23 tons. The vehicle also has 2 alternators providing more than 800 amps of charging power. 




Photo courtesy Brian Ferry, KiraVan and Applied Minds LLC

And in case you're thinking of building one in your back yard, you better have a big, fat checkbook, plenty of room on the credit cards, home equity line, etc. because the cost of in the range of "if you have to ask, you can't afford it". And expect to spend more than 4 years to complete the project.