The founder
“Indian roads make Indian engineers.If you can survive a monsoon-soaked Spiti pass at 4,500 m, you can build for anywhere.”
— Dinesh, Founder & Lead Outfitter
How it started
One garage. One Thar. One question.
AdventureX4x4 started the way most real things start in India — in a garage. A Faridabad workshop, a small team of fabricators, and one Mahindra Thar that kept breaking the off-the-shelf gear bolted onto it.
Dinesh had been overlanding for a decade by then — Spiti to Ladakh, the Northeast loops, the Rann of Kutch in summer. Every trip taught him the same lesson: the gear sold in India was either imported (and priced for it) or compromised. There was no third option.
So he built one.
Twelve years, in seven beats
How the brand earned its scars.
2014
The first build
Dinesh assembles the first prototype rooftop tent in a Faridabad workshop. It's heavy, ugly, and works. He uses it for a 21-day Ladakh expedition that same summer.
2016
From rig to brand
After fifteen friends ask 'can you build me one too?', AdventureX4x4 Outfitters is registered. The first product line — softshell rooftop tents under the CampTop name — ships to customers across north India.
2018
Spiti, winter, –28 °C
A January Spiti run nearly costs three lives when a competing tent fails at altitude. The incident becomes the brand's design north star: nothing ships unless Dinesh has personally slept in it at sub-zero.
2020
Expedition Series launches
The Bison 61 hardshell and the Leopard 41 debut — engineered around what failed in 2018. The Leopard 41 is built for sub-3.5 m vehicles like the Thar, pairing a featherweight aluminium honeycomb base with DarkShield canvas for cold nights.
2023
AutoNest 120
After three years of prototyping, AdventureX4x4 launches India's first auto-deploying hardshell rooftop tent. Single-lever release, 60-second open, 300 kg load-rated honeycomb base. The flagship.
2024
The FeatherLite
The Suzuki Jimny finds a real home in India, and the FeatherLite ships as the first rooftop tent purpose-built for it — under 45 kg, full-size sleeping platform.
2026
Built to global standards
39 SKUs across the overland stack. Shipping reaches every corner of India, with first international shipments to the UAE, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. The brand promise gets a name.
How we build
Three rules. No exceptions.
No. 01
Sleep in it before you sell it.
Every product launches only after Dinesh has personally lived in it for a multi-day expedition. The Leopard 41 went through 41 nights of testing across three seasons before shipping.
No. 02
Build for where it's used, not where it's reviewed.
Indian terrain isn't European terrain. Monsoon, dust, altitude, salt — our products are tuned to the conditions that actually fail other gear.
No. 03
The expedition is the product.
Selling rooftop tents was never the goal. The goal was more people having a story about the night they slept above the treeline. The tent is the means.
Want to talk to him?
Dinesh still picks up
most of the calls.
If you're planning a build, joining an expedition, or just want to ask about a specific product — call the workshop. He'll probably answer.