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*Motorhome insurance cost based on 2010 Auto-Trail Apache 725 SE valued at £47,463. Fitted with Thatcham Category 1 alarm and manufacturers immobiliser, kept at home at TD9 8BD. Motorhome owners - professionals over 50 years old with no claims, convictions or health conditions in last 3 years. 4 years no claims bonus mirrored from car policy and 2 years motorhome driving experience. Members of motorhome club doing less than 7000 miles annually. £250 excess applies. European cover £17, European Breakdown £42 extra. Premiums include insurance premium tax at 5% and are correct as of 14.07.10.
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Auto-Trail Apache 725 SE
The Apache 725 is a great family motorhome.
The lounge is an ingenious design that allows you to adapt it in the course of use. When you are travelling, you remove a seating section to give legroom forward of the two belted seats that form an L-shape to the lounge.
Once you've arrived, you can put that section back - and you have an L-shaped settee and, opposite, a two-seater settee. Factor in the swivelling cab seats and you easily have seating for seven.
This clever design extends into the kitchen too where the L-shape creates so much space that you could easily make meals for the seven you can seat in the lounge.
While the dark grey granite-effect surface looks classy it's the amount of storage space that will impress you most.
A cupboard and two deep drawers can be found to the right of the cooker. To the left, the under-sink unit gives you a large and well-fitted cutlery drawer, a two-shelf cupboard and a flip-down aperture to the under-sink area.
The 725 was designed with kids in mind. At the rear, tucked away behind the fridge-freezer, are two permanent bunks with a storage cavern beneath. It's a cohesive hide-away children's bedroom - and there is enough head-height for both bunks for adult use.
The quality trail now leads you into the washroom, with separate shower. A large towel rail curves its way across the forward wall. More curves define the head-height cabinet. And lighting in here is strips of tiny LED bulbs.
Lighting is a feature of the living area, too. Those LED strips appear above the wardrobe, disguised above the top lockers of the kitchen and lounge, under the kitchen locker and, more prominently, above the habitation door.
As only four can travel in the 725, it's probable that parents would sleep in the over-cab bed, kids in the bunks - and that leaves the lounge-dining area intact. But if you have two more, you can make up a double bed in the lounge, by pulling out bed bases from both sides.
But if you opt for this, bear in mind that the occupants of the over-cab double can't put the ladder in place with the bed below made up... I guess it's a case of who goes to bed first, who gets up first, who doesn't mind someone descending onto them while they're asleep if the upstairs occupants want to get up first.
Work it out for yourselves. The important thing here is that you have options - lots of them.
Verdict:
This motorhome is large enough to be truly spacious, yet it isn't a daunting drive. Rounded cabinets, beautiful wood grain, a lounge layout that you can change to suit your needs, a fantastic big kitchen - and somewhere for the kids to sleep in their own area make for a great motorhome.
Fact-file:
Price: £47,463
Berths: 6
Belted seats: 4
Size: 7.38m (l) 2.26m (w) 3.05 (h)
Weight: 4005kg (MTPLM)
Payload: 595kg
Insurance cost: £253.75*
*Motorhome insurance
cost based on 2010 Adria Polaris SL valued at £66,999. Fitted with Thatcham Cat 1 approved alarm/immobiliser and approved tracking device and kept at home behind 24 hr locked gates at SN4 7DP. Motorhome owners - professionals over 50 years old with no claims, convictions or health conditions in last 3 years. 4 years no claims bonus mirrored from car policy and 2 years motorhome driving experience. Members of motorhome club doing < 7000 miles annually. £250 excess applies. European cover £18 extra, European Breakdown £42 extra. Premium includes insurance premium tax at 5% and is correct as of 16/12/09.
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About Auto-Sleepers motorhomes...
Auto-Sleepers now has 50 years experience in meeting the needs of customers who are looking for the best in British-built motorhomes. Based at Willersey in the Cotswolds, they still take great pride in their hand craftsmanship and design expertise. Great time, care and effort go into the making of an Auto-Sleepers motorhome and it shows. The furniture, fittings and fitments are all of the highest quality, modern and stylish coupled with quality and innovation, all hand built to offer many years of pleasure. And because their designers use and live with their motorhomes, they know from experience what works and how to make the best use of every cubic centimetre of interior space. Thats why so many of their customers keep coming back to us. Auto-Sleepers have built up a reputation over many years as one of the leading van converters within the industry. They are recognised by most of the major industry bodies through various awards and have pioneered some of the innovative features still used to this day on van conversions around the world such as the first ever rising roof on a campervan. Today they offer quality van conversions on both the well priced and reliable Peugeot Boxer chassis as well the much loved and sought after Volkswagen T5 Transporter chassis. Peugeot has a well-deserved reputation for durability, innovation and value for money and is a highly popular choice among Auto-Sleepers customers. Auto-Sleepers relationship with Peugeot is a long-standing one, some of our first ever models were based on Commer chassis, now part of the Peugeot group. Auto-Sleepers offer both low-profile and highline coachbuilt models with a choice of short, medium and long wheel base chassis, they offer car-like drivability of the campervan with added space and luxury of a larger vehicle. Being coachbuilt, the entire body is made by Auto-Sleepers, for the highest levels of noise and temperature insulation. The Mercedes range of coachbuilts are produced by Auto-Sleepers exclusively for Marquis Motorhomes as part of their County range. Mercedes have developed the sprinter chassis to motorhome requirements, as you would expect they come with a very high level of technical features as standard, coupled with an Auto-Sleepers conversion we have developed an exclusive line up of luxury coachbuilts to compete with the best. The Mercedes range of coachbuilts are available thoughout the Auto-Sleepers dealer network. Mercedes have developed the sprinter chassis to motorhome requirements, as you would expect they come with a very high level of technical features as standard, coupled with an Auto-Sleepers conversion we have developed a line up of luxury coachbuilts to compete with the best.
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