Cricket Trailer: Great Teardrop Option, But SO Expensive
While I was watching videos on YouTube, the following video for the Cricket Trailer was recommended for me.
The more I watched this video, the more excited I got. Here was a small, lightweight trailer with everything that I wanted and NOTHING that I didn’t want. By the end of the video, I had picked out the V-Berth style as my favorite and thought that I would dream of the day when I could afford one.
Unfortunately, I’ll be dreaming a LONG time if I set my hopes on a Cricket.
According to the Cricket Pricing PDF, the unit that I would want (with only some of the options that were shown in this video), would cost over $16,000. At that price, I could buy the best of the A-frame popup trailers.
It seems that SMALL doesn’t necessarily mean inexpensive. I like the compact design of the Cricket, but I’m reluctant to pay TEN times the amount that I paid for my used teardrop trailer. Even if I wanted a brand new T@B trailer (with all of these same features), I would pay about $5000 less than this one.
In the end, the Cricket trailer is an ingenious teardrop option, but it’s so expensive that I would never consider it for myself.
I completely agree.
I love the “hipster” look of this trailer; its construction, material, practicality, efficiency from all I’ve researched are second to none. I simply can’t stand the traditional look of most small travel trailers, closest I find appealing is the Airstream -the trailer for the ultra wealthy.
I just got a price quote from Princescraft in Texas telling me these trailers (though still mostly custom ordered from Houston) are allowed off their lot for 20 to 22.5 THOUSAND dollars.
Un. Be. Leavable.
I’m not an engineer by trade, however, I am savvy enough to know the materials involved in this trailers construction are among the most ubiquitous in the industry. Are there some carbon fiber components I’m missing here? Some rare exotic alloy perhaps? We all gotta make some money and I’m all about rewarding smart / hard work, but come-on man.
I hope some day, either the price becomes realistic or someone puts theirs up on Craigslist. I would shell out 13K on this all day long. These trailers are brilliant, but like most brilliant things they are marketed to readers of the Robb Report.
Comment by David — August 21, 2014 @ 12:05 pm