A micro-luxury RV made from an Ineos Grenadier? Living small means making some trade-offs.
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Storyteller Overland is an Alabama-based company best known for high-end, high-dollar go-anywhere RVs, which it builds out of all-wheel-drive Sprinter vans, giant Ram pickups, and even huge Kenworth trucks. (Our testing director Eric Tingwall and his family recently camped in the middle of nowhere in a $500,000 Storyteller GXV Hilt .) Now Storyteller has created a mini-me overlanding RV, the $198,999 Grand Bohemian. It’s an Ineos Grenadier re-equipped to transport, feed, and sleep up to three. Naturally, the assignment for Storyteller’s smallest RV went to MotorTrend ’s shortest writer.
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Kudos to Storyteller for picking the right vehicle as a basis. The Ineos Grenadier, for anyone unfamiliar, is a Land Rover Defender homage known for its go-anywhere attitude and funky non-self-centering steering. (Yes, yes, they somewhat fixed that for 2026. The Grand Bohemiam we drove was a prototype based on an older chassis, but production RVs will be based on the new version.)
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From a Rugged SUV to Rustic Suite
Interior mods start with stripping out the back seat. Most of the resulting space is taken up by a full-width storage compartment, topped by a cushion that forms the short side of an L-shaped couch. If you’re traveling as a party of three, the person who drew the short straw—or the short genes—presumably rides back here, sans seatbelt and reclined to deal with the scant headroom.
Somewhere underneath the couch is the 10.5-gallon water tank (I heard it sloshing as I drove) and its associated plumbing. Also hidden under floor and cabinetry: a four-gallon gray water tank for wastewater from the sink, water pump, furnace and hot-water heater, 5.4-kWh lithium-ion battery, and a 200-watt inverter. There’s a 30-amp, 110-volt connection for shore power, but the GB doesn’t use much electricity. The battery charges off a 400-watt solar panel on the roof or the engine’s alternator, and an hour of driving is enough to top off the battery.
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Access to the living quarters is through the Grenadier’s split back door. Open it, and you’ll see the long end of the couch on the right and a cabinet on the left, home to the sink and several storage drawers, including a massive one that houses the 21-quart electric refrigerator. There’s not much headroom, though; if you want to spend time standing back there, you’ll need to raise the Grand Bohemian’s pop-up rooftop tent.
To deploy the tent, one unclips a pair of latches at rear and gives the tent cover a mighty shove upward—and I do mean mighty, as it takes a lot of muscle to get it started before the gas struts take over. Once the top is popped, two hinged roof panels, arranged fore and aft with a roughly 70/30 split, push upward to provide headroom in what is now the galley. That said, I soon learned that most tasks are best accomplished sitting down. (In the Grand Bohemian, that is, not in general.) Stowing the tent is a similarly burly task; it took all my weight on the supplied straps to overcome the struts when I broke camp.