Video review - Autocruise Starspirit
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Key Features
Model Year
2011
Product Class
Low Profile
Product Model Base
Peugeot Boxer
Price from (£)
£39826
Length (m)
6.47
Berths
2
Belted seats
2
Main Layout
Rear Lounge
Full Review
THE Autocruise brand continues to grow apace with the introduction of a new (and slightly controversial) take on a familiar name.
It’s an immutable truism that you cannot truly know a motorhome’s innate strengths and weaknesses until you’ve spent a day or two actually living in the thing.
It’s as I’m about to commit the view forward from the lounge to memory card that a circuit is suddenly completed in my head; I’ve been here before.
One of my first-ever Which Motorcaravan (as it was then known) comparison tests was back in our March 2007 issue between an Auto-Sleeper Ascot and an Autocruise Starspirit.
Plenty has changed since then (not least in terms of who actually owns the company), but the basic elements remain broadly the same: Peugeot base vehicle, U-shaped rear lounge, nearside kitchen (L-shaped back then) and washroom opposite. Basking in the warm glow of an unexpected stroll down memory lane, I set to work.
All very impressive, then, but no more than you’d expect of a true, blue-blooded Autocruise? Well, true as that may be, the Starspirit is actually a bit of a sleeper with a naughty secret – peel away the silver exterior jewellery and replace the high-quality interior cabinetry with something a little less whizz-bang, and what you’re left with is a Swift Sundance 580PR, much the same as the one we tested back in the May 2010 issue...
A full version of this new motorhome review is published in the February issue of Which Motorhome magazine. Read it online by clicking here.
It’s an immutable truism that you cannot truly know a motorhome’s innate strengths and weaknesses until you’ve spent a day or two actually living in the thing.
It’s as I’m about to commit the view forward from the lounge to memory card that a circuit is suddenly completed in my head; I’ve been here before.
One of my first-ever Which Motorcaravan (as it was then known) comparison tests was back in our March 2007 issue between an Auto-Sleeper Ascot and an Autocruise Starspirit.
Plenty has changed since then (not least in terms of who actually owns the company), but the basic elements remain broadly the same: Peugeot base vehicle, U-shaped rear lounge, nearside kitchen (L-shaped back then) and washroom opposite. Basking in the warm glow of an unexpected stroll down memory lane, I set to work.
All very impressive, then, but no more than you’d expect of a true, blue-blooded Autocruise? Well, true as that may be, the Starspirit is actually a bit of a sleeper with a naughty secret – peel away the silver exterior jewellery and replace the high-quality interior cabinetry with something a little less whizz-bang, and what you’re left with is a Swift Sundance 580PR, much the same as the one we tested back in the May 2010 issue...
A full version of this new motorhome review is published in the February issue of Which Motorhome magazine. Read it online by clicking here.
