Why the big price difference?

[Candapack]

Current MMM (oh stop it, i enjoy reading it) reviews 2 panel van conversions. An Autosleeper Fairford, and an Elddis CV.
The AS is on a Peugeot Boxer and is 6.36m long. The Elddis is a Ducato, and 6m long.
Apart from that, and layout, I can't see much difference. They both use pretty much the same equipment. They even both have an underslung gas tank.
Maybe AS use better quality fittings and furniture, but the AS is £20,000 more expensive than the Elddis. 20 grand, how can that be?

 

[Lenny HB]

Paying for the name. My neighbor has an AS I'm not impressed, most things in it appear cheap and nasty and like most Brit vans wiring well undersized for the job, poor insulation
For the same sort of money you could by a decent German van.

 

[Allanm]

Autosleeper are supposed to be at the luxury end of the market and Elddis at the mid end.
We had an Autosleeper and were very happy with it. It was well built at first glance and mostly well insulated. but compared to our German Burstner, it was poorly built and had many silly faults you wouldn’t expect in a “luxury” product.
I doubt the price difference between the two vans has any relevance in quality differences unless the Elddis is incredibly badly built, even for a British made van!

 

[Candapack]

Slight edit. The AS does have a couple of fancy doodahs, but still no way there could be a 20k price difference.

 

[Jonno1103]

Out of interest we've just looked at the 2020 AT Tracker EKS which when specced to our requirements would be nearly £70,000 including the new RFL. For nearly 5k more than a 2019 model they've removed the separate heating and replaced it with a combi 6E and removed all of the kitchen drawers replacing them with a very small in cupboard version... In short it's no better now than an Imala 615 which is 10k less and has a greater payload.

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[Neckender]

We bought a new Autosleeper Broadway in 2014 it was the biggest bag of poo, it spent more time down the factory than we used it, at 21/2 years old riddled with damp in the rear. We hated the sight of it when we opened the curtains in a morning, and gave a sigh of relief when it went at 3 years old.

John.

 

[Lenny HB]

Out of interest we've just looked at the 2020 AT Tracker EKS which when specced to our requirements would be nearly £70,000

How much! I only paid a bit more than that for my Hymer but I did import it myself.