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Motorhome buyers wanting a stylish look at an affordable price will want to keep an eye out for the new fully integrated (A class) model from Carado. Carado is the European-manufactured entry level motorhome brand from German company Erwin Hymer Group, distributed exclusively by SmartRV in New Zealand, alongside Bürstner and HYMER.

Relaxed, spacious living and stylish interiors are part of the innovative new motorhome design from German brand Bürstner, unveiled at the recent Caravan Salon show in Germany and soon to be available in New Zealand through SmartRV.

Bürstner has dubbed the new design ‘Wohnfühlen’, which translates as ‘well-being’ or ‘comfortable living’. It echoes the Danish concept of ‘hygge’, a trend that is having huge influence on lifestyle and interiors around the world.

Apart from their choice of vehicles, there is no ‘typical’ Wilderness owner. Our people (or the Wilderness Family as we like to call them) come from all walks of life and they are each at different ages and stages of their journeys.

Wilderness Motorhomes has received a Gold Sustainable Tourism Business Award and a Qualmark Endorsement.

The sister company to SmartRV runs a fleet of premium European rental motorhomes, operating out of the same premises as SmartRV in Auckland and Christchurch. Wilderness received the awards under new guidelines established by Qualmark, New Zealand tourism’s official quality assurance organisation, last October.

Liz Kinley and Tau Huirama are self-professed motorhome newbies. In fact Liz had only been in a motorhome once in her life prior to purchasing their new Bürstner Lyseo IT744.

Jane Butler runs a life coaching business called Out of the Rut.

Over the years she has helped a lot of Kiwis get out and live the best version of their lives.

This year Jane realised it was about time she did the same herself. She has taken a large part of 2017 off to get away in her own motorhome, recharge the batteries and get her own life back on track.

Wilderness has teamed up with Campable, an innovative new concept that matches motorhome travellers with private hosts around the country.

The Campable app, launched in April, provides motorhomers with authentic and unique New Zealand camping experiences.

iMotorhome reviewer Richard Robertson is back on New Zealand soil putting one of our excellent European motorhomes, the Carado T449, to the test – this time with adverse weather conditions on the wild West Coast of the South Island.

iMotorhome magazine reviewer Malcolm Street visited Auckland for the recent Covi Show and we had the pleasure of providing his ‘home’ while he was here.

In his touring test review he describes the “cute and compact” Ixeo Time IT586 as easy to handle and a breeze to manoeuvre.

HYMER, the flagship brand of Europe’s largest RV manufacturer Erwin Hymer Group, is making its debut in New Zealand and Motorhomes, Caravans & Destinations (MCD) magazine reviewer Bill Savidan was ready for the scoop.

This is the first time a HYMER vehicle has been reviewed by MCD, and it’s also the first time the magazine has reviewed a factory-built four-wheel drive motorhome. As such, the level of anticipation was high.

A young project coordinator from SmartRV has recently embraced a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to share Kiwi visions of motorhome design with Bürstner’s product development team in Germany.