This is a GXV Pangea 7300 Global Expedition, it’s a self-contained four-wheel-drive adventure vehicle designed for just about anything you want to do – from weekends away to years long round-the-world trips.
The hydraulic roof of the Pangea 7300 elevates to create accommodation for two-six people, with a kitchenette, bathroom, dinette, and a king-sized bed over the cab, and the dinette converts into additional sleeping space when required.
Fast Facts: The GXV Pangea 7300 “GEV”
- The GXV Pangea 7300 is a luxury four-wheel-drive expedition vehicle designed for extended off-grid travel. Built at an estimated cost of $800,000, it combines heavy-duty off-road capabilities with the comforts of a conventional RV/motorhome, including a hydraulically elevated roof that creates a second-story sleeping area.
- Global Expedition Vehicles was founded by Michael and René Van Pelt, who began developing their first expedition truck in 2004 after an earlier unsuccessful RV trip to Alaska. Their prototype completed a 30,000-mile South American expedition, helping establish GXV as a specialist manufacturer of self-contained adventure vehicles.
- The Pangea 7300 is powered by a 7.6 liter International DT466 turbo-diesel inline-six, paired with an Allison 6-speed automatic transmission. It has four-wheel drive, a dual-range transfer case, a locking rear differential, 20-inch wheels with military-specification tires, and a front-mounted winch for tackling difficult terrain far from paved roads.
- Inside, the Pangea accommodates four to six people, with a California king bed in the elevated sleeping loft and convertible dinette seating. Equipment includes an induction cooktop, microwave, full bathroom with oversized shower, lithium batteries, Victron electrical management system, and a Cummins 6 kW generator. It’ll cross the Mecum auction block in late October 2026.
History Speedrun: Global Expedition Vehicles
Global Expedition Vehicles, the Missouri builder known by the GXV brand name, got its start back in 2004, when Michael and René Van Pelt began building an expedition-vehicle prototype. The idea followed an RV-trip to Alaska the year before that left the couple convinced that a conventional motorhome simply couldn’t survive real backcountry use – after their rig held up poorly to the rigors of use in the far north.
This is a GXV Pangea 7300 Global Expedition, it’s a self-contained four-wheel-drive adventure vehicle designed for just about anything you want to do – from weekends away to round-the-world trips.
Van Pelt, who had spent his prior career building franchise restaurants and once owned 16 Sonic Drive-In locations, had saved an image from a National Geographic magazine article he’d seen in the 1980s – it was of a military-looking Mercedes Unimog cresting sand dunes. He wanted something his 4×4 pickup couldn’t do.
The truck was finished in the spring of 2006, the Van Pelts originally shipped it to South America for a roughly year-long expedition of 30,000 or so miles, sending it down the Amazon by barge and driving as far south as the roads (and trails) of Patagonia would allow.
By 2012, the company that grew out of that trip filled an 11 person workshop in Nixa, Missouri, and they’d caught the Travel Channel’s attention, appearing on the TV series “Extreme RVs.” The Van Pelts said production had roughly doubled most years, and by then they estimated half of GXV’s trucks were shipping overseas, to buyers in Spain, Dubai, and Chile among many others, at prices ranging from just under $200,000 USD to around $400,000 USD.
The lineup then ran from the compact UXV up to the higher-end Pangea, whose hydraulic roof lifts open a second-story sleeping loft.
The trucks were built with marine-industry parts and equipment sourced largely from Europe, composite-foam wall panels and double-pane windows from Germany, refrigerators from Italy, and they were engineered to run completely self-contained for up to 3,000 miles, carrying up to 300 gallons each of water and diesel.
This is a GXV Pangea 7300 Global Expedition, it’s a large two-story expedition camper that was built at an estimated cost of $800,000 USD.
GXV moved into a 50,000 square foot facility in Springfield, Missouri in late-2017, consolidating two Nixa locations and one in Ozark under one roof. The company ran its own metal shop and cabinet shop, building as many parts in-house as it could manage, by 2018 the company priced its Pangea Lifting Roof model at $650,000 USD, and it was finding no shortage of buyers.
Storyteller Overland, an Alabama-based adventure-van maker founded in 2018, bought GXV in early-2022. The Van Pelts stayed on as president and vice president of the GXV business, and the Springfield shop initially continued GXV’s custom-build business before shifting toward standardized models like the GXV EPIC.
In 2025, GXV vice president of operations Steve Kruse spent four weeks living in a new EPIC model, driving it through the backcountry of nine states and 250 miles of dirt trails on national forest and Bureau of Land Management land.
Storyteller has since folded the GXV name into its own truck lineup, adding the Hilt in 2023 and, in May 2026, the Wild (a Ram 3500-based build with a fold-out rear deck), which was introduced at a base price of $299,898 USD.
The GXV Pangea 7300 Global Expedition Shown Here
This is a GXV Pangea 7300 Global Expedition, it’s a large two-story expedition camper that was built at an estimated cost of $800,000 USD. The Pangea 7300 was designed for long-distance travel well beyond paved roads, it’s four-wheel drive, it has a dual-range transfer case, a locking rear differential, 20 inch wheels with military-spec tires, and a front winch.
It’s powered by a 7.6 liter International DT466 turbo-diesel inline-six paired with an Allison 6-speed automatic transmission. The cab seats four including the driver, while the living module on the back has a power-operated pop-up roof to create an upper-level bedroom with a California king bed. Electrical equipment includes a Victron Energy power-management system, lithium batteries, and a Cummins 6 kW generator.
The cab seats four including the driver, while the living module on the back has a power-operated pop-up roof to create an upper-level bedroom with a California king bed.
Inside, the Pangea is fitted more like a small apartment than a conventional camper truck. It has a kitchenette with an induction cooktop and microwave, a full-size dinette with a telescoping table, and a full bathroom with an oversized shower. Sleeping capacity is listed at four to six people, though two to four would likely be the most comfortable for long-distance travel.
It’s now due to roll across the auction block with Mecum in late-October. You can visit the listing here if you’d like to read more or register to bid.
Images courtesy of Mecum
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