2026 Palomino PumaAmbush 25TH

The 25TH is the plan whose factory sentence explains the whole sub-line: “This Toy Hauler is a Travel Trailer that will grant you a vast majority of the layout to be optional cargo area. With 11' of cargo space in the garage, make sure to bring all the toys.” That is the factory's own body-type call and the only garage figure Palomino publishes anywhere on the Ambush roster — eleven feet of it, on the shortest plan of the three.

The published weights carry the argument. Palomino lists an 8,873-pound GVWR against a 6,173-pound dry weight, leaving 2,700 pounds of cargo carrying capacity on an 845-pound dry tongue — the lightest tongue of the sub-line. That 2,700 pounds is the whole toy budget: fuel, gear, water and the machine itself all come out of it, and the 43 / 35 / 35-gallon tank set fills part of it whenever you travel wet. At 12 feet 2 inches the Ambush stands a full foot taller than the core Puma line's 11-foot-1 norm, so measure the garage door and the overhangs before the first trip home.

What the factory publishes for the sub-line's equipment, it publishes as two named packages on the Ambush detail pages themselves: the Value Leader Package (a tankless water heater, Super Lube axles, LED lighting, WiFi prep) and the Elite Package (an electric awning — 17 feet on this plan — a 13,500 BTU low-profile air conditioner with heat pump, an 11-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, an AlphaPly TPO roof membrane with a lifetime warranty, a spare tire and front diamond plate). Package inclusion on a given unit is not asserted here, and no MSRP is published — confirm delivered equipment and current pricing with a dealer.

Puma Ambush is the toy-hauler tier of Palomino's Puma family — three plans on a bumper-pull travel-trailer chassis, sold under the parent Puma line and rostered on the Puma hub's Ambush section. The factory's own floorplan sentence for the 25TH opens “This Toy Hauler is a Travel Trailer” — the body-type call is the factory's, not this site's. Tongue weight climbs 845 → 1,235 → 1,440 lbs across the three lengths, and every plan carries the 43 / 35 / 35-gallon tank set. The cross-shops are Forest River's own value travel-trailer toy haulers: XLR Boost and the Cherokee Wolf Pack family.

A full 43-gallon fresh tank is about 359 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 13% of the Ambush 25TH’s 2,700 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,341 lb. Across 24 Puma travel-trailer floorplans the water share runs 11% to 28%, and 20 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Puma Vista 39FKL at 13% and Puma Vista 38RLB at 15%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).

Closest sibling: the Puma Ambush 27TH, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 5 of the 8 fields both publish (this plan first): length 29 ft 9 in vs 34 ft 1 in; dry weight 6,173 lb vs 6,738 lb; GVWR 8,873 lb vs 9,995 lb; cargo capacity 2,700 lb vs 3,257 lb; dry hitch weight 845 lb vs 1,235 lb. They match on fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Puma 26FKDS is 320 lb lighter (8,553 lb GVWR); Puma 310RK is 390 lb heavier (9,263 lb GVWR).

All 33 Puma floorplans: Puma line hub.

Against the Ambush 25TH: the Aurora Light 28QBUNK is 1 lb heavier and 6 ft longer; the Coachmen Catalina 281QBUNK is 17 lb heavier and 6 ft longer; the Delta 281BH is 23 lb lighter and 2 ft longer.

13 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the Ambush 25TH. Not published: interior height, sleeps, slide count, axle count, tire specification.

Values marked with an asterisk are arithmetic on published figures or come from a single source; the flag travels into the downloadable spec sheet.

Sourcing rules: methodology.