This July, 2017, I took a 3 week road trip from Seattle WA to Santa Fe NM and back. I bought the 2 person version, and used it most nights. My experience was overwhelmingly positive, though there were some quality issues like misaligned Velcro at little flap covering the hinge point, and I have some suggestions for design improvements. I have a Honda Element which accommodated the tent well, though setting it up would be difficult for anyone of normal height because the Element is very tall. I am also, so I was able to set it up well enough, with some practice. The collapsed ladder is very hard for even me to reach while it is sitting on top of the folded tent. And lucky for me I was travelling solo, because at 6'5", I was only able to sleep in it by lying diagonally. On the plus side, it was wonderful to slide into a national forest just before dusk knowing all I had to do was find a fairly isolated forest service road where I could pull off and spend the night. I had it up in 10 minutes, with a few more minutes to toss my gear in, and the same in the morning to take it down. I was able to stay in many places where setting up a tent was not an option, like paved parking lots, or small gravel lots surrounded by trees, lumpy or rocky ground, etc. It gave me all the freedom of having a camper van at a fraction of the price. I always slept comfortably and felt secure. My biggest suggestion for improvement would be to enlarge the holes into which the rain fly stays are inserted. They are drilled to nearly the same diameter as the stays, which means that the stays need to be inserted first, then you need to grab the hooked end with one hand, and the rain fly grommet with the other, in order to attach the rain fly to the stay. But you are doing this while standing on the rear wheel, or perhaps in the car doorway, which is quite awkward since you have no free hand to hang on. I found that it was sometimes easier to stay standing on the ground and use the rain fly stay to reach up and insert the hooked end into the rain fly grommet first, then holding the end of the stay with both hands and bend it into alignment with the hole in the tent floor and insert it. The only problem with this method was that it was often very difficult to get the stay perfectly aligned with the hole, and until it was, it would not insert since the hole is nearly the exact same size as the stay. There appears to be no reason for the hole to be so precisely drilled to the same diameter as the stay, it could be made much bigger so that the stay would insert easily, and would still hold the stay and rain fly securely. I may sell my 2 person version and trade up to a 3. One other issue is that it is impractical that one could remove the rain fly and use the tent without it. I found that once the tent was installed on top of my Element, the buckles that secure the fly to the top of the tent were nearly impossible to reach. Assuming I could have gotten the fly off, it would have been just as difficult to put back on, which you would of course need to be prepared to do if the weather changed. I am not sure how, but a design change that would make it simpler to remove and replace the rain fly would be nice, since then you could remove the fly and save the time needed to insert the 8 rain fly stays and connect them to the fly. And perhaps the ladder ought to have a line attached to it so one could deploy the ladder without having to climb up and reach over the top to get a hand on the thing.
