Roof tent
A roof tent is an accessory which may be fitted to the roof of a motor vehicle which allows the users to sleep in relative safety and comfort above the vehicle.
Roof tents are particularly seen on expedition-prepared four wheel drive vehicles such as Land Rovers, but can be fitted to almost any vehicle. They are particularly popular in Italy and one manufacturer advertises them using photographs of their devices fitted to cars as small as the Fiat Panda.
Roof tents have traditionally taken the form of a conventional ridge-pole tent which can be folded into a compact package, resting on marine ply wood, and mounted on a roof rack. More modern tent designs such as Autohome's Maggiolina roof tent are housed in a moulded plastic or carbon fibre box, and are erected and taken down more quickly using a simple lever or cantilever arrangement. In 2003 a French manufacturer introduced extremely simple and lightweight tents, resembling modern sprung-pole types of ground tent.
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