Camper Trailer Australia — December 2017

F

or years campers have been pigeon-

holed into one of two categories.

Tough, offroad ready campers

primed to take on the far reaches

of Australia, the kind of camper you can

punt across rivers, weave down through

rock ledges and pound on corrugation after

corrugation.

The other? Budget campers. These are

something most people use as an entry into

the market. A camper designed and priced

to get suburban families out into the local

campgrounds in comfort, they generally put

features over build quality, trading offroad

ability for niceties to make camping more

enjoyable while keeping the bills down. The

two are rarely thought to overlap, but Mars

might beg to differ.

On our recent jaunt to Cape York, Mars

Campers’ National Sales Manager Celso Prado

joined us on the journey, hitching up one of

their top tier forward folds, the Spirit 2Pac.

Behind his typically modified 150 Series

" THE SPIRIT'S RELATIVELY LIGHTWEIGHT,

1350KG, MEANT THE HILL CLIMBS WERE

EASILY CONQUERED"

On the tight tracks the Spirit’s

small footprint helped weave

in and out of hard-hitting

obstacles

The awning’s reasonably quick to
setup with minimal poles required
to get it standing

HITS

Battle proven

Simple setup

Super affordable

Quality fit and

finish

MISSES

Rickety interior

table

Winches wider

than the body

Basic offroad

coupling