Bailey Endurance E62 Campervan

Rugged off-road-style looks can now be combined with a rear lounge layout

Bailey’s Endurance dares you to be different. Its Grey Matter paint, Trail grille, front skid plate, dramatic graphics, all-weather tyres and optional black swamper alloys shout adventure, while its Truma diesel heating, 130W solar panel and twin 80Ah AGM leisure batteries speak of touring off-grid.

Launched last October (with your Editor getting an early preview in Spain’s Bardenas Reales semi-desert badlands – watch at 

motorhome.ma/review355), the Endurance arrived with a continental-style rear fixed bed layout, travel seats for four and sleeping capacity to match – if you ticked the TentBox roof tent option. 

Two years earlier, Bailey had launched its very first campervan, the Endeavour B62 (see 

motorhome.ma/review291 to see that being tested to the limits in the Sahara!). As the Bristol brand’s first toe in panel van waters, it unsurprisingly adopted the UK favourite of a classic two-berth rear lounge design, with other layouts following on later. 

Best of both Endurance and Endeavour?

Now you can have what some will probably see as the best of both worlds – Endurance looks, with the Endeavour’s rear lounge. Welcome to the new Endurance E62, which could potentially also save you up to three grand compared with the equivalent Endeavour.

Of course, there are some key differences to go with that cost saving, most notably that the Endurance has a manual gearbox, with the Endeavour’s automatic gearbox offered as an £1,850 extra (both have the 2-litre 165hp diesel motor).

The glass panoramic overcab sunroof is another feature that’s relegated to the options list (at £950), while the Thule awning also becomes an extra (£650), so you could end up spending more on the new model, especially if you want to go the whole hog with the off-road appearance, adding the £1,250 Adventure Pack (Rhino roof rack and ladder, additional roof-mounted off-road lighting and an upgrade of the solar to two 100W panels).

This pack reduces your payload by 67kg (and the automatic gearbox by 45kg), but the standard model has a generous capacity of 681kg, so that shouldn’t be an issue.

You don’t lose out on base vehicle spec with the Endurance, as the Transit comes with ESP, tyre pressure monitoring, intelligent speed assist, lane assist and autonomous emergency braking. There’s a 12in infotainment screen, too, linked to a reversing camera.

Popular two-berth layout

The E62 also keeps the B62’s ever-popular floorplan, although here it's two side sofas in the stern. The backrest to turn the lounge into a U-shape is an option and most, I suspect, will be happy to forgo that for the easy walk-through via the rear barn doors. The scatter cushions shown are another option, but I did rather like the armrests that can be reversed to reveal a neat cup holder.

Soft furnishings in the Endurance are called Stratos (the Endeavour has Apollo), while the furniture trades Light Oak, Satin Cashmere and Anthracite for Natural Oak, Lunar Grey and Moonstone. Altogether it’s a more youthful vibe.

That’s continued with the switch from silver to black for the washroom’s large tambour door, but the clever design that sees the ablutions occupying less space when they’re not in use is carried over. It makes for a very good campervan shower and toilet area, although the small mushroom roof vent may not be adequate in hot weather.

The other factor with the washroom is that it creates a LOT more room to use the galley opposite – often an issue when these two aspects face each other with just a slim aisle between. 

The kitchen also differs not just in aesthetics (black rather than chrome fittings) compared with the Endeavour but in spec, too. There’s one less ring on the hob and no oven/grill but you do gain an extra-large drawer as well as a barbecue point for cooking outside.

A classic rear lounge layout and the Endurance’s rugged looks make an appealing combination for couples prepared to forgo the E65’s garage space. With diesel heating, two leisure batteries and solar, the new model is also set for off-grid adventures.