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Pilote Pacific P600P
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Model Year 2017
Class Low Profile
Base Vehicle Fiat Ducato
Price From (£) 45,511
Engine Size 2.3TD
Maximum Weight (kg) 3,500
Berths 2
Main Layout French Bed
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At a glance

Berths: 2/3 Travel seats: 4 Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato Gross weight: 3,500kg Payload: 840kg

Full review

There are plenty of advantages of going smaller. Not necessarily to a van conversion or a campervan, but a six-metre coachbuilt. On some ferries you’ll sneak into the lowest rate, while parking – at home on your drive and, certainly, in town and in car parks – will be so much easier.

Less length also means less weight, so this little Pilote boasts a whopping 840kg payload in Essentiel spec (800kg if you upgrade to Sensation) – and that’s on a 3,500kg chassis that anyone can drive.

The P600P is, in fact, the smallest Pacific low-profile model in the French firm’s line-up (of 16 floorplans, ranging up to 7.45m in length), although the company also offers three six-metre Galaxy G600 A-classes – with large front lounge, French bed or transverse rear double over a garage. Based on Fiat’s lower Camping-Car chassis, the P600 is powered by a 130bhp engine as standard, with upgrades optional.

The French bed, which is the key to this layout, measures an impressive 2.00m by 1.40m and has less cut-off towards the foot (the bane of the French bed design) than many in much longer ’vans. The headboard and lack of a rear window should make sitting up in bed more comfortable, here, too. A privacy screen for the bed is fitted and the Bultex foam mattress sits on a slatted frame. A comfortable memory foam mattress is an option, as is an infill to make a single bed from the front lounge.

Alongside the fixed mattress, in usual French bed style, is the washroom. This comes complete with a proper separate shower and the superior Dometic cassette toilet.

If there’s a downside of fitting this type of floorplan into a compact bodyshell, it’s in the kitchen. But whilst the galley area isn’t large, it does include a small oven and a good selection of drawers.

Alongside is a tall ‘n’ slim 138-litre fridge/freezer with automatic energy selection – there’s many a larger motorhome that can’t match such capacity.

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Up front, the half-dinette lounge comes with swivel captain’s style cab seats, an overcab skylight and a TV mounting that’s adjustable for height.

A redesigned interior to the luton area for the 2017 season provides an overcab shelf surrounded by a one-piece moulding. This is claimed to reduce noise on the road and hide any fixings. The cab area is also better integrated into the living area on this season’s Pilote low-profiles.

All Pilote coachbuilts have Isotek body construction with Styrofoam insulation, flush-fitting windows, proper chassis extensions, an anti-hail roof, aluminium side skirts and a polyester skin underneath to protect from road debris damage.

Upgrading your P600P from Essentiel to Sensation spec adds £4,512 to the price, for which you get features like Combi 6kW heating (rather than 4kW) which you can use while driving, a frostproof waste water tank, DAB radio with Bluetooth and rear speakers, cab blinds, central locking to the habitation door, a built-in waste bin, extractor fan, additional lighting (with dimmer controls) and more.

If you enjoyed this review, you can read the full version and more in the April 2017 issue of What Motorhome magazine.

You can get a digital version of this latest issue of What Motorhome magazine here.

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