VALUEFORMONEY“Plenty of bang for your hard-
earned money”TOWABILITY“Felt nice and stable from soft sand
up to highway speeds”LIVEABILITY"All the right equipment to get the
job done with a minimum of fuss”SUITABILITY
FORINTENDEDTOURING“An offroad van with everything you
need to keep you off the grid too”
LAYOUT“Practical layout with more storage
than you could wish for”
QUALITYOFFINISH“Highqualityfinishfromtop
tobottom”BUILDQUALITY“Attentiontodetailisevident
throughout”CREATURECOMFORTS“Multiplepoweroutletsandenergy-
efficientLEDlighting”INNOVATION“Borrowingideasfromthemarine
industrywillcontinuetopush
theboundaries”X-FACTOR“Provendesignthatdoesn'tfollow
thetrendsjustforthesakeofit”9in) and has to be made up every night. This
is one of the reasons the NZ back sort of fell
out of favour.POWER DRESSING
Along the offside wall, the kitchen bench is
surprisingly large, even with the 45-degree
seat back carved out of it. A little surprise
in this motorhome is that there are no
gas appliances. The cooktop is a Philips
100W-2100W induction unit, the fridge is
an Isotherm CR85 12V compressor job and
the microwave oven, as always, is powered
via 240V mains (operated at powered sites
only).
Inside the shower cubicle, things look a bit
familiar. It’s a combo ‘wet’ setup, so there’s
a Thetford cassette toilet, a flexible hose
shower and a small corner washbasin. It’s all
very compact.KIWI INSPIRATION
Something else that amused me when I
stepped into the eVolve motorhome was
that it has what I call an ‘NZ back’. That is, a
U-shaped lounge with all-round windows.
This is something that was almost obligatory
in any NZ-built motorhome for many years,
simply because it gave commanding views
of the surrounding scenery which, of course,
NZ has in spades.
Layouts have changed but in many
ways this is one that is very hard to beat,
particularly as the offside seat has a
45-degree C backrest (against the kitchen
bench) which is just great for admiring the
aforementioned scenery.
Of course, the U-shaped lounge is also the
dining area (there is a removeable pole-
mounted table) as well as the motorhome
bed. It measures 2.1m x 1.45m (6ft 11in x 4ft
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