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Car Tents
An ordinary car is the most demanding tent platform of all: no factory off-road rack, a modest dynamic roof rating, and an owner who will not accept a permanent fixture. This catalogue's car offer is therefore led by the lightest tents it makes. The Solo (8.4 kg) and Skiff (18 kg) inflatable roof tents keep the tent's share of the driving sum small — the sum itself is tent plus rack and accessories against the car's dynamic rating — and both pack off the car entirely — the Skiff into a 75 × 50 × 30 cm bag — so the car goes back to being a car on Monday.
Beyond the roof
Car camping does not have to sleep on the car. The 90°, 180° and 270° car side awnings add shade and rain cover at standing height beside any vehicle; the portable one-bedroom SUV shelter tent listed in the SUV tents range works as a ground room behind a car; and the inflatable ground tents pitch anywhere with no vehicle involvement at all. The complete picture — roof, side and ground — is what "car tent" should mean, and it is all in this one catalogue.
The one check that matters
Roof load, in two checks. For driving, add the tent, the rack and any roof accessories and compare against the car's dynamic roof rating (in the owner's manual, not on a forum). Parked, add the tent and the sleepers and compare against the static rating and the tent's own rating. The method, with worked examples from this range's listed weights, is in the roof load capacity guide. If either check fails, drop to the ground options rather than overloading the roof — the catalogue gives you somewhere good to land.