Paul J
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- Feb 27, 2018
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Hi, I guess I'm new here, I'm (Hopefully) returning to motorhomes (not metronomes, private joke after selling my last motorhome in 2002. I have more time now, had a quick look at a couple of dealers, and I notice how things have changed !
Unfortunately the screen price of these vehicles has gone up like everything else, the £26.500 that we paid for a Bessacarr E435 in 2001 has gone up rather a lot, possibly to around £42,000 ? I sure wish I still had that van, anyway.....
The criteria now, is for an attempt at much the same layout, although in this new (to me) compact style coach-built. we'd like to keep the dimensions of the vehicle as neat as we can, reducing the length to the 5.7-ish of the Elddis Autoquest 115 would be lovely, or at worst close to 6m of some of the Accordo range. We didn't have a great experience with our 'Swift-group' bessacarr, so I bought a change to Elddis might be good, open to other options too. We'll be losing the height and some of the width of the old Bessacarr, so I'm looking forward to a less stressful, more car-like driving experience.
The Bessacarr had, at the front, a side facing sofa, with a 4 seater dinette, which could be left in place, and it's main bed over the cab. End kitchen, and corner shower room. This layout really suits us, but we have to make some changes for the compact replacement.
We looked at the Elddis Autoquest 115, it has two side facing sofa's at the front, then matching the Bessacarr behind that, with end kitchen and corner shower room.
One of the problems that we had with the Bessacarr was lack of storage, it was lovely and open in the living space, but lacked large cupboards or storage areas.
Elddis Accordo range has a similar vehicle to the Autoquest, the Accordo 105 is similar, but with a rear shower room and side kitchen
I guess I'm trying to almost achieve the impossible, I have a couple of Bromton folding bikes, they're 62cm x 62cm, and it struck me that it these small vans, it's likely that there is nowhere to store them ? I'm guessing that there is little space under those sofa's ?
We clearly need to make our way down to our local dealer, we can have a measure up of some options, I just wondered if anyone has advice, or knows the size of the storage under those Autoquest 115 sofa's ?
Paul
Unfortunately the screen price of these vehicles has gone up like everything else, the £26.500 that we paid for a Bessacarr E435 in 2001 has gone up rather a lot, possibly to around £42,000 ? I sure wish I still had that van, anyway.....
The criteria now, is for an attempt at much the same layout, although in this new (to me) compact style coach-built. we'd like to keep the dimensions of the vehicle as neat as we can, reducing the length to the 5.7-ish of the Elddis Autoquest 115 would be lovely, or at worst close to 6m of some of the Accordo range. We didn't have a great experience with our 'Swift-group' bessacarr, so I bought a change to Elddis might be good, open to other options too. We'll be losing the height and some of the width of the old Bessacarr, so I'm looking forward to a less stressful, more car-like driving experience.
The Bessacarr had, at the front, a side facing sofa, with a 4 seater dinette, which could be left in place, and it's main bed over the cab. End kitchen, and corner shower room. This layout really suits us, but we have to make some changes for the compact replacement.
We looked at the Elddis Autoquest 115, it has two side facing sofa's at the front, then matching the Bessacarr behind that, with end kitchen and corner shower room.
One of the problems that we had with the Bessacarr was lack of storage, it was lovely and open in the living space, but lacked large cupboards or storage areas.
Elddis Accordo range has a similar vehicle to the Autoquest, the Accordo 105 is similar, but with a rear shower room and side kitchen
I guess I'm trying to almost achieve the impossible, I have a couple of Bromton folding bikes, they're 62cm x 62cm, and it struck me that it these small vans, it's likely that there is nowhere to store them ? I'm guessing that there is little space under those sofa's ?
We clearly need to make our way down to our local dealer, we can have a measure up of some options, I just wondered if anyone has advice, or knows the size of the storage under those Autoquest 115 sofa's ?
Paul