It is sad to see another camper manufacture leave the industry.
But around $40,000 for a camper trailer is a lot money. You could buy a brand new sv6 commodore for that money and you get a motor,gear box, air conditioning etc and Australian made.
I think the problem is that their is more competition around and people can't justify spending that kind of money on a camper. ( this is only my view) .
I am not knocking their product but I think this is the problem
$40K might sound like a lot for a hard floor camper, but when you see a number of soft floor campers up around the $25-$30K mark then they are pretty good value. It all depends on how you use it and how long you want to keep it for. I wouldn't pull any of the cheap ones down the canning, up the cape or across the anne beadall, yeah they may make it one way but how can we be sure it will make it back home, atleast with a good quality camper you can have that assurance. But if you don't want to do these types of trips then the cheap ones will be ok and I suppose thats what most will do, but when I sell our cape york camper, I know I will be passing on a camper that will still do the bigger trips and come back home and continue to do them for quite a while.
If you go to the big caravan/camping shows there are people lined up to buy the AORC's and KK's and they are around the $50k mark, so there is still plenty of money floating around out there. Just out of curiosity I just did an online quote on KK's site and a camper that is comparable to ours is approx $45K. After looking at these couple of sites I reckon my missus and I need to have a good chat about taking our camper off the market, do a few more mods to it to make it easier for me (I am in a wheelchair) and keep it for a while longer.
Cheers
Greg
