"Caravan or mobile home, gas or diesel? Our opinion on the decision-making aid"

Why is there no wet room in the FAMA?

In a small caravan, the available space must be used as efficiently as possible so that there is no feeling of being cramped. Our caravans are equipped with sufficient cupboard capacity, kitchen block, sleeping and seating accommodation and remain airy and light thanks to the surrounding window front.

From our point of view, using valuable space for a wet room makes little sense: on the one hand, the vast majority of campsites are equipped with very good sanitary facilities, on the other hand, a bathroom with toilet and shower adapted to the proportions of the caravan would be so small and cramped that it would would certainly only be used in extreme emergencies. The washbasin in the kitchen unit and the portable toilet under the seat are available for this type of "emergency".

The installation of a wet cell would also affect the maneuverability of our caravans due to the additional weight.

Why is the FAMA only 2m wide (and so streamlined)?

The small width not only ensures the special maneuverability of our caravan, e.g. B. when driving through densely built-up districts or in parking lots, but it has a direct influence on the consumption of the towing vehicle (exact calculation by Ing. Schmidt see below...). At the same time, the bed with a length of almost 2 m has a sufficient lying surface.

Another advantage: additional exterior mirrors for monitoring the traffic behind are often not required.

Special answer for those interested in physics:

As you can see in the equation below, the power required depends on three parameters that we can influence. This is the (transverse) frontal area A projected in the direction of travel, the drag coefficient c_w and the speed v, which is even included in the "third power", which means that if the speed is doubled, eight times (!) the power is required. We could only influence the air density by where and in what weather we ride, but that's hard to choose and the variations in our case don't have much of an impact... :-)

The front face is also interesting, where our width now enters. With the same height of 2m but with 50cm more width (to 2.5m), this area increases by 25% and goes straight to the performance, i.e. consumption.