Technical Specification

Model Year	2007
Manufacturer	Avondale
Class	Single Axle
Range	Avondale
Base Vehicle	-
Price from (£)	15995
Berths	4
Shipping length (m)	7.19
MRO (kg)	1270
MTPLM (kg)	1500
Max width (m)	2.22
External height (m)	2.56
End Washroom	Yes
Island Double	No
Fixed singles/bunks	No
Triple bunks	No
End Kitchen	No
Back & Front Dinette	No
Side dinette	Yes
Caravan Buyer Test Date	-
Caravan Test Date	-
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Detailed Review

Avondale Osprey, 2008

Price new: £15,495

This caravan is a: four berth with an end washroom

Confession time: I have a bit of a soft spot for Avondale’s ‘Bird’ caravans. The first-ever test caravan to come my way was a 1995 Avondale Mayfly, (not a bird, admittedly) complete with cheerfully twee curtains, fiddle-rails galore and a dinky little rear lantern window. After years spent labouring under the misapprehension that a neighbour’s rather austere early 1970s ABI Monza was as good as caravans got, it seemed to me to be the height of camping luxury and modernity. I also seem to recall that the prose which appeared in print shortly afterwards was as purple as it was possible to get this side of a manufacturer’s advertisement.
Twelve years later, and the rosy spectacles have long gone (as has the Mayfly, which breathed its last in 2001), but Avondale’s range of single-axle clubman caravans remains, albeit in a barely recognisable form.
The Osprey, tested here in its 2008 guise, first appeared back in 1999 and is still going strong today, thanks in no small part,
I would imagine, to the rallying fraternity who clearly appreciate its tried-and-tested layout and unusually opulent feel. It works as a family caravan, that’s true, but I’d lay good odds that 90 per cent of Osprey customers are retired couples who divide their time between full-blown club sites and facility-light CLs and CSs.

Caravan layout

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