Consider car-pulled trailer designs from other countries — is US manufacturing less inspired?

02 December 2019

Today, I vent a bit

Why is it so darn difficult to buy anything well-designed and competently manufactured in the United States?

Let's talk car-pulled trailers, for example.

Are we Americans unimaginative?

In Europe, small light-weight trailers are everywhere. Some of these are ingeniously designed to save storage space. Some even fit into car trunks.

Many of the European examples are noticeably affordable. Especially so, when one is allowed to ignore the VAT, as US military personnel in Germany can.

In contrast, in the United States, most domestic trailer designs are crude, heavy — usually expensive for what they are — and almost always "way-big" space-taking.

From this, one might conclude that we have money to burn and living space to waste. Even when we live under the imperious eyes of trailer-disapproving Home Owners Associations.

In contrast

The below URL links took days to dig up, due to Google's monetized uselessness. A uselessness, which I estimate, heavily contributes to our culture's complacence-preserving trait:

Australia:

BullDog Folding Trailers

Rampless.net (see it on YouTube, here)

Canada:

Apogee Trailers

France:

OZI Concept

YO Remorques (for instance the CCL6 — on YouTube, here)

Germany:

Pongratz Trailers (especially the Pongami)

AirTrailer (YouTube, here)

Helios Moto Trailers (see it fit into a BMW 525 car trunk, here)