r/nextfuckinglevel 17h ago

The Transformation of a Van

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u/Cloud_Garrett 17h ago

It IS a cool idea…but let’s not pretend that “#yolo van life - saving money and living on road” is a thing when they are building a luxury inside what looks like an enclosed, air conditioned, garage that’s bigger than a lot of people’s apartment.

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u/Fermit 17h ago

Where did anyone related to the video say that they were “saving money and living on the road”? They massively modded a van to turn it into camper. That’s it. Chill with the salt it’s exhausting to see people comment this shit on every single video that implies any level of wealth above destitute. Be mad at the actual uber-rich.

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u/DukeBradford2 16h ago

Those vans are $100k new. Throw in another $10k to mod it and you are spending twice as much as a 2020 to 2023 class c 35ft

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u/shortsteve 15h ago

it's cheaper than that. You buy the base model and then mod it yourself. My uncle bought one, had a company do the mods. All in he was 150k, but that's paying top dollar for everything. The people here modded it themselves and saved a lot of money. I could see it costing 80~100k all-in for them.