Auto-Sleeper Warwick XL campervan

Berths: 2 Travel seats: 2 Base vehicle: Peugeot Boxer Gross weight: 3,500kg Payload: 469kg

At Auto-Sleepers, changes are not made to every model for every season. Things are more evolutionary, so this year’s Warwick XL campervan looks much like the 2017 version, even though it gets a Trackstar Category 6 vehicle tracking system as standard.

Much more noticeable, though, is the new Limewash Oak furniture option (seen here), along with Casa Mila or Sagrada soft furnishings. It’s a bit lighter, brighter inside, in a layout that already felt spacious for its two occupants.

Peugeot’s 2-litre 160bhp motor still gives the Auto-Sleeper a power advantage over key rivals, and it also comes with a leather steering wheel, Garmin sat-nav, rear view camera, alloy wheels and more as part of the Premium Pack. That’s an essential £2,500 add-on to the price listed above right.

You might also want the £995 Media Pack (incorporating a Maxview satellite system) but almost everything else – awning, fitted gas tank, microwave, etc – is already included.

The layout feels spacious and classy with sufficient room for a couple downsizing from a coachbuilt not to feel shortchanged. Here, after all, is the extra-long Peugeot van (6.36m long), with the benefit of two rear settees each measuring over 6ft and without the overhanging wardrobe of the shorter Warwick Duo. It really comes to the fore with the back doors flung open on a warm summer’s day.

Let’s be in no doubt that the end lounge is a star feature, with its armrests and scatter cushions, windows all around (mostly fixed), room to stretch out, reading lights and two tables. It’s a luxurious place for a couple to unwind on holiday.

The lounge also makes into comfy single beds – just by removing the backrest cushions – or a huge (almost square) double. And, because you’ll sleep lengthways, access to the kitchen and washroom is still easy, without any gymnastics.

The bathroom is another reason to buy a Warwick XL over the six-metre Warwick Duo (and others), as it comes with a separate shower. Maybe you’d like just a tad more flat surface around the basin for your beauty potions, but the lack of any bathroom cupboard is compensated for by the wire baskets on the wall over the toilet and a recess with a retaining rail. That just leaves the rather small water tanks as a possible incentive to use site facilities, rather than your own on-board ones.

On the culinary side, it’s not hard to see the appeal of cooking here. Microwave at eye-level, masses of worktop, three-burner hob plus oven/grill, extractor hood, automatic energy selection fridge, well-placed mains sockets, a deep drawer for your pans and even a kitchen roll holder. What more could you want?

Storage is pretty good, too, with easy access into the under-seat space, thanks to gas struts that are strong enough to support the raised bases without removing any cushions. The wardrobe comes with three small drawers below and the elasticated pockets on the side of the wardrobe, backs of the cab seats and outside of the bathroom are useful, too.

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