AUSSIE ADVENTURING
SCORE 91
“IT WILL STILL APPEAL TO COUPLES OR THOSE SEEKING ADVENTURE WITH A HEIGHTENED LEVEL OF COMFORT THAT IS NOT NORMALLY AVAILABLE IN SUCH CAMPERS, AND THAT’S MADE IT ONE OF PATRIOT’S LEADING SELLERS.” DAVID COOK
In 2019 Patriot rewrote the book on hybrid campers. We’d all assumed a hybrid was a hard-walled, hard-roofed camper with the comforts of a caravan to go with the go-anywhere capability of a camper trailer — the best of both worlds.
Patriot decided that wasn’t the only way to carve up the pie and hit the market with its X3, a canvas-topped camper that folds out much like one of its X1s but with the internal fittings from the caravan playbook — table, seats, coffee maker (optional, though most customers tick the box), floor space, heating, and so on.
Whether you choose to accept the X3 as a hybrid or not is actually irrelevant — it’s still equipped with that high
