Full review

As reviewed here, the 600 did arrive with a lot of fitted options, and most of them seem good value… but the final price is a hefty £52,270.

First there’s that ‘smiley-face’ front grille, which helps add a touch of individuality to a vehicle with all-GRP exterior (extending also to a complete underfloor skin), flat roofline and tall rear exterior-access locker. Perhaps a little surprising, considering its more upmarket aspirations, is the windowless habitation door.

Inside, and over the cab, it’s a slightly unusual treatment of the normal open shelving to all three sides. There are no surprises in the lounge configuration below, however, with L-shaped seating nearside and an offside inward-facing settee – although the rear travel arrangement is certainly different, relying on extra cushions and supports to convert the settees into individual forward-facing travel seats.

Cushioning tends towards the soft side, and all the on-site seating is around a fixed pedestal table – not always a favourite with UK users – with height as well as fore and aft adjustment. It certainly needs that adjustment, it’s so large, easily capable of accommodating four folk, arguably six.

Rapido levels out the cab floor so there’s just the smallest of steps down to the main living area. Critically, it also means all the seat heights are pretty much the same (crucial at meal times).

A classy wood finish to the furniture (there are two décor schemes available for 2014) is complemented by gloss cream doors in the kitchen. This, and the standard upholstery here, combines to offer the more homely ambience we Brits tend to go for in our motorhomes. Is it our love affair with wood of this hue and tone? Or just the curve of those locker doors? Probably both. The extensive LED lighting also helps.

Like many of its peers here, it’s a kitchen with the main unit nearside. L-shaped, it makes the most of its three-ring hob with spark ignition and separate sink with a chrome mixer tap, with some worktop in between.

Below, there’s a Dometic oven/grill, with soft-close drawers above and below and – unique in this class of motorhome – the kind of travel locking system normally reserved for much more expensive vehicles.

The set-up here also allows for a slimline locker, offering provision for smaller bottles, etc, while a curved-front locker underneath is spacious enough to also accommodate the Truma Combi 6 boiler (it operates from gas and mains) in its darkest recesses. Kitchen fittings also extend to a spice rack and an extractor unit.

Across the galley, there’s a generously sized Thetford 149-litre fridge/freezer, while overhead the large opening sunroof provides all you’ll ever need in terms of ventilation and daylight.

Across the back of the 600FF, the washroom again seems to make more of its space than its rivals, with a slightly too small metal circular basin the biggest criticism.

There’s a lined shower cubicle with a useful extending clothes rail. The wardrobe is in here, too, alongside a massive tall locker that’s also accessible from outside (with folding shelving), while there’s more than generous provision for toiletries storage. All it really lacks is a window.

And so to bed. Like others, it’s a Project 2000 electric bed facility, but there are differences. The factory/standard settings are designed to allow use of the second double bed created underneath it, but this can be easily overridden if you want the main bed lower.

• Taken from the March 2014 issue of Which Motorhome magazine - download the digital edition here.
   
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