Hi all, my name is Ben, I have worked for both companies and currently still at one. Which you will be able to guess. I would love to add some info to this video for a few things that were addressed and a few other points. Many touching on a bit more of the reasoning behind design.

It’s very tempting to get a conversion, thanks for providing this comparison guys! Love the vid 😍🤗

Yes! Finally a comparison video of these two pop top conversions. Thank you!

The finishing, materials and detail on the Alucab is far superior in my opinion.

This was a great video. I had never heard of the Mulgo before and it was really helpful having such a thorough comparison between it and the Alu-Cab.

Last week I had my Alu Cab Canopy Camper installed ( it has the same pop-up as in your video). l learned a few setup techniques and that I will likely need to get a 1" topper. Thanks for the great content.

A few years back I was looking at both of these conversions...ultimately went for the Alu-Cab for the extra length of the bed, the darker style canvas and the availability of a distributer not far from where I live. Haven't looked back in getting the Hercules conversion.

Haven't watched it yet, but this video is really appreciated!!

Great review guys! Busy looking at buying a troopy in SA now that we can buy them again and really like the Alucab version. It seems neater than the other Mulgo with all it’s bit hanging down. Also nothing better on an awesome night or morning to open the sides up. With our Hannibal Roof top tent I have often retired to bed early while the other stay at the fire and continued chatting through the window. I am Lucky to stay in Cape Town and the owner of Alucab Jeremy is giving me his personal troopy for the day to check it out. Great 👍 video

Awesome work folks. I finally went with the Hercules top being a single bloke with stuff on the roof and that extra bit to perch on is cool. Thanks to Ben for his input, I'll be thinking about fires now and will be keeping a box cutter up there for emergency exits hopefully there's time to unzip a window though. Goes on at the end of May. See you out on the tracks.

From what I've seen, as an automotive design engineer, the Mulgo units appear to be designed around a roof replacement frame, whereas the Alu-Cab just seem to be a rooftop tent redimensioned to fit. That's certainly true on the Defender pop tops, where the Mulgo Cant rail completely replaces the roof for structural & torsional purposes so the vehicle could actually be driven with no roof. The tent is then built into that. The Alu-Cab doesn't seem to have much more than the Gen 3 tent bolted on & the lid clearly takes some torsional stress as they all bust the latches in use.

This is great - a world exclusive! Here are my thoughts and comments on my Hercules.

Great video mate. I dream of those rigs

Great video, guys! 🤙

Some beautiful troopys right there

Great review thank you for that! So in a nutshell the Mulga is for Hobbits and the Alu Cab for normal people. ;) ;) ;) You showed me a lot of ideas for our Alu-Cab Hercules, e.g. that you can put down only the little bit to sit on it in bad weather, great idea. The pull down strap for closing both platforms at the same time. You didn't mention the electric set up, e.g. the reading LED lights up inside on either side, the lights in the front and end. For the closing of the roof in general, it is much easier if you leave a window unzipped and to make it much easier as well you should put the string where you pull below the rubber band which is holding the sides together, so when you pull it down at the same time you are pulling the walls inside... The comparison though doesn't fit 100%, "Harder to open and close" (In the video it looks much more work to close the Mulga), "Looks bulkier" (subjective), whereby darker inside is a huge plus for the A-C (when I am inside I usually want to sleep). The awning is a big plus, when it is raining you can leave the window open, without you cant. Great review! Much appreciated, thank you!

Nice video lads, and good to be balanced.

The Hercules Canvas is awesome. In the night it's 100% private.

Great video . I had the alucab and loved it apart from not wide enough for 2 . I do like the mulgo especially the width . Disappointing with the mulgo is the canvas hanging down when closed and have to wrap up also I can see pillows falling down all the time . The alucab is not wide enough and would stop me going that route again . I can see easy improvements in the Mulgo eg have a second hatch like alucab which would stop pillows etc falling , add length and I would also replace the material as it looks really cheap. The alucab material is perfect. Again I love the alucab but would go Mulgo next time and add improvements myself .

I think I would go for the Mulgo.