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This issue is full of new 2025-season models, which is very appropriate as I’ve just come back from four days at the NEC for the Motorhome and Caravan Show, where you’ll have seen these and many more vehicles making their public debut. The show seemed very busy, so the appetite for the exciting vehicles on offer is certainly not abating, whether it’s pop-top campervans (like the Landseer reviewed this month) or mega-money A-classes (a £647,000 Morelo Empire Liner was the most expensive model at the show!). For me and my colleagues, Iain Duff and Rachel Scholes, it was an especially busy week as we compared ’van after ’van for the 2025 Motorhome Awards and Campervan Awards, the results of which will be revealed in the February issue. Some categories, such…
Bailey has added two new layouts to its first-ever campervan range, the Endeavour, which is now made up of four models. The additional models, both of which are under six metres long, include the Endeavour B63, a pure two-berth with a rear kitchen opposite the washroom. Up front, the side sofa facing the sliding door converts into a double bed at night. The Endeavour B65 (pictured), is a four-berth with four travel seats. As well as the font lounge and central kitchen/washroom, there is a fixed bed at the rear, which folds up to create full-height storage for bikes, etc. The second double bed is in the pop-top, accessed through a hatch above the front lounge. Built on a Chrome Blue, 3,500kg, Ford Transit panel van, the Endeavour campervan range…
THE Adria Twin remains the original fixed bed campervan. It’s been around since the wedge-shaped Fiat Ducato van first arrived in 2007 and has been facelifted for 2025. It has more recently been joined by the Twin Max, based on the VW Crafter. And now, there’s the SuperTwin to take over the role of flagship campervan. Or there will be, once it gets the green light for production, because this surprise debutante at the Caravan Salon Düsseldorf in September was described as a ‘design concept’. But we all know that Adria has a history of presenting such ‘studies’ with the full intention of series production coming shortly after. Rumours suggest you might not even have to wait for the 2026 season… Adria might want to get things moving sooner rather…
AS I glanced through the habitation door of Bürstner’s new Campeo TD 690 G at the company’s press preview, I had a sense of déjà vu. Had I not been looking at this exact same model a few moments earlier? Err, no, and neither had I been at the schnapps, nor was I losing my marbles. The reason for the confusion? Bürstner’s new Campeo TD range actually includes two models that differ in just a single detail – the size of the fridge. The TD 690 G has a 131.5-litre fridge (including a 15-litre freezer compartment) and the (same price) TD 691 G has an 83-litre cooler with 10.5-litre frozen section. Why offer the choice? Well, the taller (full-height) fridge will probably suit those buying a Campeo TD with the…
NOT to be left out of the 4x4 party, Dethleffs showed a production-ready prototype of its Globebus Performance at this year’s Caravan Salon. Not another Mercedes, nor even a van conversion, the Dethleffs is a low-profile motorhome based on the VW Crafter. The unwashed, mud-splattered ’van set the scene of an Austrian farmyard with its fencing, pine trees and bark chips. But this is less of an overlander and more of a standard motorhome that won’t get stuck when the going gets slippery. Dethleffs says it is “the perfect travel companion for camping enthusiasts who occasionally venture off the beaten track or tackle snowy inclines.” It has raised suspension and black 18in alloys shod with off-road tyres to go with VW’s 4Motion all-wheel drive but the long rear overhang will be…
THERE’S a new Ford Transit Custom on the scene now, with conversions being launched for the 2025 season from Dreamer, Landseer, Panama, Swift and Westfalia – with many more to come. But the previous-generation van was a gamechanger, the first serious competition to the VW Transporter in the pop-top camper market – and, for much of its life, the best-selling vehicle in the UK. Not the best-selling van, but the number one vehicle, outselling Fiestas, Corsas, Golfs and Qashqais. That means there are huge numbers of them around and converting a late, low-mileage example could be an affordable way into the campervan lifestyle. That’s certainly the thinking behind this Dormobile. Of course, this storied name in campervans already offers the traditional side kitchen layout in its pop-top conversions of both…
