Weighing less than a tonne, the J-Pod Outback rounds out its
offroad credentials with A/T tyres and independent suspension
A
few years ago my grandfather went
shopping for a new wristwatch.
Everybody knew about it soon
enough.
“What’s the deal with watches nowadays?” he
yelled, one afternoon, putting down his tea so
he could wave his hands more freely. “What are
these know-it-all, show-off watchmakers trying
to achieve? I don’t need my watch to tell me how
far I’ve walked, to call my kids or to show me
emails. I just need it to tell me the time.”
My old man’s man hit upon a fundamental
design principle that day. To properly serve
customers, a product needs to have clarity of
purpose. To that end, it needs to keep things
simple. Too many features and all of a sudden
you have an unruly Frankenstein’s monster.
While testing out a Jayco J-Pod Outback in the
Victorian High Country recently, I was reminded
of this memory. This camper certainly has a
clear purpose – to enable couples on a budget to
venture out through the rough stuff to beautiful
destinations. And its simple design serves this
purpose to a tee. My grandfather would’ve liked it.The roofrack empowers fun-loving travellers
to bring along some of their favoured toys