Alan D Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 I noticed a very smart but small PVC on the road recently. It was based on the Renault Trafic. Quite small but has anyone got ideas who is the converter and what is it called? Alan D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 Not a lot to go on Alan....But I will start of with a stab in the dark :-D http://devonconversions.co.uk/category/models/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicka Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Hi Alan You don't say if it was a recent or older Van Conversions on the Renault Traffic were popular in the 1990's &early 2000's. There are still many around. Holdsworth, Reimo, Autosleeper, Adria & Eriba to name a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 I believe the only mainstream UK converter currently building on the Renault Trafic may well be (as mentioned by Judgemental) Devon with their "Sunrise" model. Sussex Campers offers the "Venturer" on the equivalent Vauxhall Vivaro http://sussexcamperslatestmodels.wordpress.com/venturer/ and there may be other small-volume UK converters using the Trafic as a base vehicle. Trafic-based PVCs are quite common abroad and (perhaps unsurprisingly) plenty of French small-volume converters offer them. A few years ago Weinsberg(Knaus) marketed the X-Cursion range of fixed/rising-roof/high-top models all based on the Trafic. In the early-2000s Eriba marketed the Trafic-based "Style" range http://www.hymer.ag/medien/pdf/032146_HYAG_Eriba_Car_FR_2004.pdf that was a unusual coachbuilt design with a rising-roof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josie gibblebucket Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Or could it have been a stimson St. Tropez? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan D Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 Thanks for all your ideas. I only caught a glimpse of the van but it was in excellent condition and looked new, I am aware that there are variants / vauxhall etc. Do Adria still make this model? Sussex campers provide an excellent video which gives you a good idea of the size, so thanks Derek, and to the Judge. I think a lot of us would like a quart in a pint pot. I want to downsize but am unsure if this a step too far, but I shall give it some consderation, Thanks , Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 These are about the best panel vans yo can get. La Strada, from Germany. top class, superb finish and build quality. here is one the Renault. approx £44.000 imported and registered. UK panel van owners, watch and weep:D http://tinyurl.com/d2ke535 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homenaway Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 JudgeMental - 2012-06-21 1:31 PMThese are about the best panel vans yo can get. La Strada, from Germany. top class, superb finish and build quality. here is one the Renault. approx £44.000 imported and registered.UK panel van owners, watch and weep:Dhttp://tinyurl.com/d2ke535 But that's on a Renault Master not a Trafic! I couldn't see any Trafic based "CampingBusse" conversions listed in a recent German ProMobil magazine I bought. Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Homenaway - 2012-06-21 1:48 PMJudgeMental - 2012-06-21 1:31 PMThese are about the best panel vans yo can get. La Strada, from Germany. top class, superb finish and build quality. here is one the Renault. approx £44.000 imported and registered.UK panel van owners, watch and weep:Dhttp://tinyurl.com/d2ke535But that's on a Renault Master not a Trafic!I couldn't see any Trafic based "CampingBusse" conversions listed in a recent German ProMobil magazine I bought. SteveOh! :-S Hi Steve! I did not know there where different vans *-) I was at Düsseldorf show in 2010 when these new Renault vans where released...and any conversion I have seen since have been on the one I linked?what is your vans make?have seen the trafic now its a small delivery van...a step to far me thinks... :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeti Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 It could be a Nuventure product http://www.nuventure.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chausson le mor Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Where did you see the van? Just returned on Weds from 2 week stint round East Anglia A1 area M25 M4 etc our van is a Renault Master Devon Tempest finished in Tempest Blue metallic paint! Was it us??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan D Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 Sorry no Chausson, although yours sounds a good van it was definately based on a Trafic which is a much smaller van than the Master, Alan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peejay Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Could it have been a Vantage Zen? http://www.vantagemotorhomes.co.uk/zen-motorhome-info.php Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flicka Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Another convertor I forgot earlier. http://www.renaultmotorhomes.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Uzzell Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 JudgeMental - 2012-06-21 1:31 PM These are about the best panel vans yo can get. La Strada, from Germany. top class, superb finish and build quality. here is one the Renault. approx £44.000 imported and registered. UK panel van owners, watch and weep:D http://tinyurl.com/d2ke535 La Strada's reputation for exceptional build quality is (in my view) overrated. Their Transit Mk 6-based "Pronto" PVC's interior looked like it had been equipped with MFI reject furniture, while the bed of one of their "Trento" PVCs almost decapitated a forum member. http://www.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=8217&posts=5 It's a massive over-generalisation to imply that, because a motorhome happens to be built in Germany, this automatically makes it 'better' than a UK equivalent. It's as easy to get a German-built motorhome 'dog' as it is to get one made elsewhere. There are UK PVC manufacturers (IH or Murvi are just two examples) producing motorhomes with design/build-quality at least equal to anything being manufactured abroad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 double floors, properly winterised, rear garages, in a panel van? The finish and build including cabinet work is in a different league from any panel van that I have looked at. Brian has always said he like these and I agree.. Expensive though, but still cheaper then some of the lamentable UK ones you mention! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Kirby Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Haven't seen a recent one, so my take on quality stems from when we were looking at buying our first, around 2004. Certainly the general standard of finish, design, and execution then seemed substantially better than their concurrent peers. However, they were then, as they are now, expensive - though no more so than some of the higher quality current UK made PVCs. What I like on the latest models, although only seen in pictures, is the slick, well chosen, chintz free interior design. It is clean, sharp and unfussy, and IMO that makes it far more appropriate to a vehicle built for travel and accommodation than many I have seen. Too many of the others seem to have settled for Marriott Hotel modern, which I don't much like in hotels, but would really dislike in a vehicle I'd own. That's Just me, mind! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JudgeMental Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Brian Kirby - 2012-06-22 11:04 PM Haven't seen a recent one, so my take on quality stems from when we were looking at buying our first, around 2004. Certainly the general standard of finish, design, and execution then seemed substantially better than their concurrent peers. However, they were then, as they are now, expensive - though no more so than some of the higher quality current UK made PVCs. What I like on the latest models, although only seen in pictures, is the slick, well chosen, chintz free interior design. It is clean, sharp and unfussy, and IMO that makes it far more appropriate to a vehicle built for travel and accommodation than many I have seen. Too many of the others seem to have settled for Marriott Hotel modern, which I don't much like in hotels, but would really dislike in a vehicle I'd own. That's Just me, mind! :-) AMEN! to that! :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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