Full review

The Opportunity is designed to offer a modular approach. This front lounge campervan can have just two travel seats, as here, or three, four, or even five. For the two/three-seaters, there’s a long offside settee, with an extra nearside seat for the three. The four and five-seaters will have two single forward-facing rear travel seats; or an offside dinette and a single nearside rear seat.

Externally, the Opportunity has few embellishments. It will be built on Citroën Relays, Peugeot Boxers or Fiat Ducatos up to four years old and 50,000 miles.

Slide back the door and there’s a huge open space, with acres of tough, grey vinyl flooring. Whilst the front seats swivel, there’s a step down from the cab, so both chairs are much higher than the main lounge.

Therefore the passenger’s seat will benefit from the planned bigger step, to avoid ‘dangling leg syndrome’. During the day, the settee might be preferred as it’s a comfortable spot from which to watch the world go by. There’s a coffee table between the cab seats and it’s intended to mount another base on the main floor, so two tabletops can lock together to make one larger surface. 

Daytime lighting comes from three large top-hinged windows with pleated blinds and a Midi Heki rooflight. At night there are high-level LED strips along both sides, backed up by two adjustable reading lights over the settee. Some ceiling lights would be a useful addition.

The kitchen is a linear unit with a large rectangular sink and a Triplex cooker with three gas burners and an oven/grill. You might feel there’s insufficient worktop, but the unit opposite provides plenty. There are two mains wall sockets here and above is a microwave at a safe height. Ahead of the nearside unit is a tall AES fridge with a separate bottle/veg drawer.

Other kitchen storage is good, and will become better once the 20-litre underslung LPG tank is fitted. There are overhead cupboards all around, behind tambour doors so, apart from a couple of additional lights above the surfaces, there’s everything a cook could require – and lots of space in which to move around.

Behind the kitchen, the tambour door slides open, revealing a large washroom across the rear of the campervan. The bench loo has its own water supply and the cassette is easily removed via the back doors. The washbasin is on the nearside, with a separate showerhead on a riser bar, alongside. Storage is very good, with a wardrobe above/behind the toilet.

Come bedtime, sleeping arrangements couldn’t be simpler. Unclip the bed legs and pull the settee base out to the centre of the lounge floor, with the backrest dropping into the gap. That’s it. The current bed is small at 1.83m by 1.12m, but this will be extended to 1.93m by 1.30m in production. Opportunity four and five-seater models will have a different bed design.

Axon’s Opportunity is a work in progress – but well-built and practical with a well-equipped kitchen and spacious washroom, together with vast floor space for transporting large sporting equipment. It offers a cost-effective entry point into campervanning.