2026 Palomino PumaAmbush 27TH

The 27TH is the cargo pick of the three. Palomino publishes a 9,995-pound GVWR against a 6,738-pound dry weight, and the 3,257-pound cargo carrying capacity that leaves is the largest on the Ambush roster — 75 pounds more than the 29TH's, on a trailer three and a half feet shorter and 1,075 pounds lighter dry. If the machine is heavy and the trailer budget is not, this is the plan the arithmetic favours.

The tongue is the trade. At 1,235 pounds dry it is 390 pounds heavier than the 25TH's, and garage cargo loaded behind the axles moves the real figure further — weigh the loaded combination rather than trusting the base number. The tank set is the sub-line's standard 43 / 35 / 35 gallons, the height is the same 12 feet 2 inches as the rest of the roster, and the electric awning on this plan is 19 feet. Palomino publishes no garage length for the 27TH — the 25TH's eleven-foot figure is the only one stated on the roster — so confirm the bay against your machine before ordering.

Equipment the factory publishes for the sub-line comes as the two named packages on the Ambush detail pages: Value Leader (tankless water heater, Super Lube axles, LED, WiFi prep) and Elite (electric awning, 13,500 BTU low-profile air conditioner with heat pump, 11-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, AlphaPly TPO roof with lifetime warranty, spare tire, front diamond plate). Package inclusion on a given unit is not asserted here, and no MSRP is published — confirm delivered equipment and 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 11% of the 3,257-pound cargo capacity, leaving the Ambush 27TH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 1,235 pounds is 18% of the 6,738-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 9,995-pound GVWR the Ambush 27TH is towing 3,257 pounds more than its 6,738-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 27TH sits 7 of 33 in the Puma line: 9,995 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 31FKRK is 65 pounds lighter at 9,930 lb GVWR; and Puma 31RLQS is 505 pounds heavier at 10,500 lb GVWR.

Against the Ambush 27TH: the Campsite Reserve 29TJ is 3 ft longer; the Cascade 29TEC is 2 ft longer; the Cherokee Wolf Den 271RK is 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 27TH. 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.