The 2021 Mantis Overland.TAXA Outdoors
- Travel trailer maker Taxa Outdoors has unveiled its 2021 line of overlanding trailers, which consists of an updated model and two trailers that previously weren't offered as overlanders.
- The 2021 overland lineup now includes the new $49,950 Mantis Overland, updated $38,950 Cricket Overland, and new $24,950 TigerMoth Overland.
- The Taxa team made the 2021 overlanding trailers more family friendly as per customer demands.
- According to Taxa Outdoors CEO Garrett Finney and president Divya Brown in an email interview with Business Insider, Taxa Outdoors currently has a six-month backlog, and shipments are up 30% annually.
Taxa Outdoors has added two models and upgraded a previous one for its 2021 line of overlanding trailers as road travel continues to remain popular during the coronavirus pandemic.
Companies that specialize in creating products that enable road travel - such as rental companies and camper van and RV makers - have generally seen extraordinary growth during the coronavirus pandemic as people continue to look for ways to get outdoors while still staying socially distanced.
Taxa Outdoors, a lightweight travel trailer maker, doesn't deviate from this trend.
"Shipments are up 30% annually and the backlog is six months right now, which is a 100% increase year-over-year," Taxa Outdoors CEO Garrett Finney and president Divya Brown told Business Insider in an email interview.
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According to Finney and Brown, so far, every trailer that has left Taxa's production line since the start of the pandemic has already been pre-sold.
Now, the company is rolling out more models under its overlanding travel trailer line. Of the three family-friendly 2021 models, one is an updated overlander, and two were previously only offered as non-overlanders.
"Our design team is always listening to consumers and customers and thinking of ways to solve their problems," Finney and Brown wrote. "The 2021 editions definitely had the end customer's desires for a more family-friendly habitat as the focus."
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