Kiwi concept on German production line

Written By Kim Manunui

MARCH 2017

A new German-made Dethleffs Nomad caravan will be on display at the 2017 Covi Super Show that has a story of Kiwi ingenuity behind it.

Prior to the last year’s Covi Show, the team at Central RV in Taupo customised a Dethleffs twin-single bed caravan into an east-west island bed layout – a floor-plan particularly popular in the New Zealand RV market. Dethleffs’ export manager visiting from Germany inspected the altered caravan and was instantly impressed, and sent photos back to the company’s design team. The endorsement of the export manager, combined with an assurance from Brent Thurlow, owner of Central RV, that the layout would be well received in New Zealand, convinced Dethleffs to agree to work towards putting it into production.

Subsequently, Brent Thurlow, owner of Central RV, travelled to the Dethleffs factory in Isny, Germany, and worked with the design and production teams to finalise technical specifications before the first unit rolled off the production line in January 2017. The very first factory-built unit of this Kiwi-designed layout – named the Nomad 650RQT – will be on display at the Covi Super Show in Auckland this month. Clever German engineering and a design which has been intensively worked through resulted in an east-west layout free of the issues which have previously plagued this bed orientation: wheel arch intrusion, reduced bed dimensions, and limited walk-around access. The end result is a bed that measures 2.05m x 1.52m – huge dimensions for an east-west caravan layout.

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