This year is the 50th anniversary of the Knaus Schwalbennest, and Knaus is producing a jubilee version this year, designed to be towed by a car the size of the Ford Ka or similar. Here's a slide show at Der Spiegel. Text is all in german, but you get the idea from the photos how leeeetle this thing is. The footprint, anyway. Weight is listed at 585kg, about on par with a smaller size fiberglass egg.
Impressive design and great price. It seems as Knaus has changed from VW to Fiat 500 as the towing vehicle for advertising. Their current motorhomes are primarily Fiats as well.
Shades of Amtrak sleeper? Foto #3 doesn't do it justice. Unfortunately, #4 does! Small as it is, it smashed down the old Bug near the Taj. A nice cuppa in the showroom would be fine but I'd worry about the onset of 2 inch-itis.
I wonder if "wanigan" (sort of a shack on a truck in Mainer) is a corruption of "wohnwagen" (vehicular home). You could possibly tow your wohnwagen behind your old Volkswagen Vanagon altho looks like Fiat is the tug of choice now.
That sure is a cute little Knaus! Here in Spain we see lots and lots of Knaus caravans, but haven't seen one quite that small! It makes our Dethleffs (12 ft.) TT (also a German TT) seem really huge. Thanks for sharing!
If you drag your cursor across the texts below the pictures to highlight them and then right click you should get a 'translate with Bing' option. You then get the original text on the left and the English translation on the right of your screen. You lose the pics but get the translation for each text as you work your way through.
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