WildAx Pulsar Hi-Top

Berths: 2 Travel seats: 4 Base vehicle: Citroën Relay SWB Gross weight: 3300kg Payload: 380kg

The Pulsar Hi-Top is based on the short-wheelbase Citroën Relay and has an overall height of 2.75m with WildAx’s own roof. It’s only 5m long, so you can get it into parking spaces and down country lanes where coachbuilts – and even bigger campervans – would fear to tread.

It’s still like driving a van, but it’s easy to manoeuvre because you can see back through the rear windows.

 The Euro VI base vehicle comes with plenty of spec to start with; you get the DAB radio with Bluetooth connection, cruise control, sat-nav, cab air-con, LED running lights, leather steering wheel, passenger airbag and ‘walnut’ dash trim as standard.

The driver and passenger seats rotate to face into the spacious lounge. There are three table leg positions and two small tables supplied. 

The high-top gives lots of headroom. Thanks to the slope, it starts at 1.96m and rises to 2.04m at the entrance to the kitchen area.

The lockers are all dark woodgrain and glossy cream. Lighting is by low-energy LED clusters, supplemented by touch-operated spotlights.

For the bed, pull on a lever and the rear travel seats slide out and down. You need to add one cross support and then get the solitary infill cushion from the rear. You can put up the bed in under a minute. Disassembling is just as easy.

In terms of size, the cushioned area measures 1.80m long by 1.16m wide, which isn’t particularly long, or very wide, but there’s space to get up in the night.

The kitchen contains a wide gas hob with three burners, a small Thetford Triplex oven with a grill, and four drawers under the large sink, which comes with draining and chopping boards.

Also here is a 230V socket and a dual-USB charging . Two LED clusters and a touch-operated spotlight provide additional All the windows have full frames, as well as flyscreens and blinds. The only disappointment in the kitchen is the tiny 50-litre Waeco fridge.

The washroom is bigger than you’d expect. Inside, it’s 91cm wide and 71cm deep, with a floor-to-ceiling height of 2.03m. A tambour door rotates around the Dometic cassette toilet with porcelain bowl. There’s plenty of storage for your toiletries, but the flip-down washbasin is a bit cheap and flimsy.

The water tanks are both insulated and heated, and the Pulsar Hi-Top qualifies for Grade 3 insulation. That sums up this neat little camper. It can go anywhere, anytime, with a surprising amount of space inside.

If you enjoyed this review, you can read the full version and loads more in the October 2016 issue of What Motorhome magazine. You can get a digital copy of this latest issue of What Motorhome magazine here.

Compact and manoeuvrable, and yet the Pulsar has a decent washroom, lots of headroom and a friendly lounge.