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.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 90-gallon fresh tank is roughly 17% of the 4,408-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 17MAV with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 873 pounds is 16% of the 5,542-pound dry weight — at or above the top of the usual 10–15% band before you load anything. A nose-heavy dry figure eats truck payload directly, so budget the hitch load against your door-jamb sticker rather than against the tow rating.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 9,950-pound GVWR the 17MAV is towing 4,408 pounds more than its 5,542-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 90 gallons of fresh against 74 grey and 37 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Of the 8 Momentum floorplans profiled here, the 17MAV is the lightest by GVWR at 9,950 pounds — the entry point to the line and the one most likely to suit a vehicle already at its limit.

Either side of it in the same line: Momentum 21G is 1,050 pounds heavier at 11,000 lb GVWR.

Against the 17MAV: the Puma 31FKRK is 20 lb lighter and 15 ft longer and sleeps 2 more; the Westbrook Luxury 305DBLC is 25 lb lighter and 15 ft longer; the Campsite Reserve 27MR is 35 lb heavier and 12 ft longer. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest travel trailers from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Momentum floorplans profiled here run 5,542 to 18,114 pounds dry and 23 to 46 feet of exterior length across 8 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Momentum line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 15 of them for the 17MAV. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: slide count, axle count, tire specification. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (97%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.