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Dethleffs Trend T 6757
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Key Features

Model Year 2016
Class Low Profile
Base Vehicle Fiat Ducato
Price From (£) 45,990
Engine Size 2.3TD
Maximum Weight (kg) 3,499
Berths 3
Main Layout Island Bed
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At a glance

Berths: 3 Travel seats: 4 Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato Gross vehicle weight: 3,499kg Payload: 537kg

Full review

Converters are striving to fit island beds into ever more compact packages. The Trend T 6757 is one of two such layouts in Dethleffs’ four strong range that is entry-level but scarcely budget, starting at around £46k.

Externally, the Trend looks similar to many competitors, with an aluminium outer skin and a hail-resistant GRP roof. Though the sandwich construction isn’t entirely wood-free, it does have a rot-proof floor and six-year water-ingress warranty.

At 66cm, the habitation door is considerably wider than standard. It has a rubbish bin and flyscreen but no window.

Inside is a fairly conventional layout. Opposite the door, the L-shaped seating incorporates two travel seats around a fixed table, and there is a single inward-facing seat forward of the door. Behind the travel seats is the kitchen, with a fridge unit opposite, followed by the en suite and island bed. Décor is light and welcoming.

The Trend T 6757 uses the ubiquitous Fiat 2.3-litre, 130bhp engine in Euro V+ guise. Base vehicle spec has improved immeasurably over recent years, with ESP, Hill Assist, ABS and twin airbags all included, and cruise control, but no radio. With no reversing camera or parking sensors, the Trend was still reasonably easy to manoeuvre.

Fiat’s lower Camping-Car chassis provides a supple ride and excellent handling, so we found the Trend fairly waltzed along even with a standard motor.

The half-dinette’s bench seat provides good support for travelling and is also comfortable for upright lounging. The tabletop does slide around, but as it’s small it’s a pity there’s no swing-out tabletop extension.

There’s an opening overcab skylight and another over the lounge. At night, there are LED strips around the cab and above the high-level cupboards, plus two downlighters beneath the cupboards and two in the doorway – but no reading lights for the cab seats. All the downlighters here are halogen – most unusual in a 2016 motorhome.

Window blinds are the cheaper roller-blind type, which can snag and rattle. But the lounge and bedroom windows also sport net curtains, with faux curtain panels that can obscure the driver’s over-shoulder view. Alongside the habitation door there’s space and sockets to mount a TV.

Fitting an island bed into a modest length motorhome often results in compromises in the kitchen, but not here. The hob has spark ignition, and the hob and sink have separate glass lids. In front of the sink there’s plenty of work surface that is well illuminated. The slimline AES fridge is capacious at 142 litres, and other storage is good. Below the fridge is a large drawer, and the kitchen unit contains a big, shelved cupboard (also housing a rubbish bin), a large cutlery drawer above the oven and another large drawer below it. High above the kitchen is another big, shelved cupboard.

Up a step from the kitchen you reach the en suite bedroom. The washroom door swings across the aisle, affording privacy to the bedroom beyond, but morning sun then streams in through the blind-less washroom skylight.

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Other than that, the washroom is splendid. The swivel toilet is set low, and there’s a large and sturdy washbasin with movable tap and two large mirrors. There’s plenty of storage and all necessary accoutrements.

The shower is quite commodious and has plenty of headroom. It has several cubbies for shower gel, two drain holes and a ceiling rail for damp clothes.

The Trend’s island bed is comfortable. In daytime mode its length is 1.73m but, with a 17cm filler cushion, extends to 1.90m. There are halogen lights under the bedhead cupboards and it’s possible to sit up in bed to read, though there’s no bedroom TV point.

But even with the mattress retracted, there’s just 15cm in which to squeeze past the washroom wall. On both sides of the bed there’s a wheel arch to negotiate. Extend the mattress for sleep and the island bed is an island no more.

In addition to an optional drop-down bed, Dethleffs supplies as standard a couple of extra cushions to be used with the lowered table and some of the lounge seating cushions. We tried different forms of the jigsaw but none worked satisfactorily.

A deep locker resides under the lounge’s offside seat. Part of the lounge-floor plinth can be removed to form a useful hidey-hole. There are two overhead cupboards above the lounge’s nearside, and a shelf above the offside seat, plus another shelf and cubby to the side of the door.

The bedroom also has good storage, with a full wardrobe each side of the bedhead, and two large, shelved overhead cupboards. Open two doors in the foot of the bed to reveal a shelved cupboard. There’s another cubby in the floor.

The rear store is nearly a metre square inside. You’ll load most items through the offside door as the internal gas locker, with capacity for two 11kg bottles, is adjacent the nearside door.

This is an abridged version of the full review appearing in the May 2016 issue of MMM.

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Our verdict

The competitively priced T 6757 is, like all Dethleffs, robustly built and well finished. The kitchen and washroom are excellent, but the bedroom has insufficient space around the comfy bed. We'd look at the bigger T 7057 instead.

Advantages

Well designed washroom
Practical kitchen

Disadvantages

Not enough space around island bed
Habitation door window is not standard

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