2027 Grand Design Momentum MAV17MAV

The 17MAV is the entry to the whole Momentum family and the smallest garage Grand Design sells under the name: twenty-two feet eleven inches overall, 5,542 pounds dry, and $47,462 — a third of what the flagship 392M lists for. It is a MAV, which means a 24-inch DoveTail loading ramp, a garage pull-down screen, no wheel wells in the garage and a flat floor, under an R-40 TPO roof with a limited lifetime warranty and R-9 insulated walls. The factory publishes no slide count for this plan. It sleeps two.

The payload is the headline and it is remarkable: 9,950 pounds of GVWR against 5,542 dry leaves 4,408 pounds — roughly eighty percent of the trailer's own empty weight, and more cargo capacity than the entry Momentum fifth wheel gets at three times the price. The 873-pound dry tongue is the lightest in the family. And this is a MAV, so there is no fuel station: Grand Design prints N/A into the Fuel Capacity field on all five MAV floorplans and carries no fuel bullet anywhere in the MAV feature list, so no fuel figure appears on this page. If you want an onboard pump, you want a G-Class.

Momentum is Grand Design's toy-hauler family, and it spans four rosters across both tow types. The full-size Momentum fifth wheel is the flagship — a 101-inch wide-body coach on MORryde independent suspension with disc brakes, carrying a 60-gallon dual fuel station. The Momentum G-Class fifth wheel sits below it on MORryde CRE3000 suspension and a Rotoflex pin box with a 30-gallon fuel station, and the G-Class travel trailer puts that same garage behind a bumper pull. The Momentum MAV is the compact end — the lightest and cheapest way into a Momentum garage, and the one roster with no fuel station at all. The 17MAV on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The full MY2027 catalogue runs to 28 floorplans across the four rosters; eight are profiled in depth here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub with their weights.

A full 90-gallon fresh tank is about 751 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 17% of the 17MAV’s 4,408 lb cargo capacity, leaving 3,657 lb (1,829 lb per rated berth). Across 4 Momentum travel-trailer floorplans the water share runs 17% to 28%, and this plan’s is the lowest. Nearest on that share: Momentum 30G at 19%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).

Closest sibling: the Momentum 21G, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 7 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 22 ft 11 in vs 26 ft 11 in; sleeps 2 vs 6; dry weight 5,542 lb vs 7,280 lb; GVWR 9,950 lb vs 11,000 lb; cargo capacity 4,408 lb vs 3,720 lb; dry hitch weight 873 lb vs 1,056 lb; black tank 37 gal vs 39 gal. They match on fresh tank and grey tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Momentum 21G is 1,050 lb heavier (11,000 lb GVWR).

All 8 Momentum floorplans: Momentum line hub.

Against the 17MAV: the Eagle 306RKDS is 13 ft longer; the Seismic 273 is 8 ft longer; the Puma 31FKRK is 20 lb lighter and 15 ft longer and sleeps 2 more.

15 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 17MAV. Not published: slide count, axle count, tire specification.

Sourcing rules: methodology.