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.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 43-gallon fresh tank is roughly 13% of the 2,700-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Ambush 25TH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 845 pounds is 14% of the 6,173-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 8,873-pound GVWR the Ambush 25TH is towing 2,700 pounds more than its 6,173-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 43 gallons of fresh against 35 grey and 35 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the Ambush 25TH sits 2 of 33 in the Puma line: 8,873 pounds against a line that runs from 8,553 to 18,575 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Puma 26FKDS is 320 pounds lighter at 8,553 lb GVWR; and Puma 310RK is 390 pounds heavier at 9,263 lb GVWR.

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. 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 Puma floorplans profiled here run 6,173 to 15,114 pounds dry and 30 to 43 feet of exterior length across 33 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 Puma line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 13 of them for the Ambush 25TH. 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: interior height, sleeps, 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 (84%) 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.

Values on this page carrying an asterisk were derived by arithmetic from published figures, or come from a single source, rather than being printed directly by the manufacturer. The flag travels with the number into the downloadable spec sheet.

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