I've passed over the the Dark Side.. Tin box suggestions ????
 

Do to a compromise, I'm having to go on my next trip on four wheels.. Not all bad though as I'll have a luxury of lots of luggage space. Will be lots of camping and self cooking so it will be nice :)

I've almost settled on a Citroen Berlingo Multispace 1.9D. (Any advice on this would be nice)..

I'm going to spend 6-12 months mostly in Europe but will probably be visiting Morocco and maybe the Stans, Turkey, Greece etc.

I'm very open to vehicle suggestions...

Requisites are:

£2500 budget
Low maintenance
Reliable
Practical
Five seats
Loads of luggage space
Return 40+ MPG.


Cheers, Ted bier

I have never owned or travelled in a 4 wheeled vehicle but did used to drive a Citroen Berlingo van when working for another member of this forum and thought it would be a good travel car. It was long enough to sleep in for people up to 6 feet tall and the 1.9 diesel did 50 mpg at 60 mph on a run. I am not sure why you would want a multispace which it doesn't look like you can sleep in, unless you are taking more than three people and would suggest the van instead.

I see your point but as a social traveller, I like the idea of picking people up or petrol sharing with people we may meet.

With the multispace, you can roll the back seats right forward or simply unbolt them.. I like the versatility of it :)

I like the idea Ted, wonder if you bought a multispace thats been adapted for wheelchair access whether you could squeeze a bike in as well. Best of both mate..

Have a look at this Ted.
I was going to sell last year and buy a Van till I found out that the insurance was twice as much for the van as I pay for the Partner.

I may be selling now rather than leave it sat on the drive for a year.


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It does over 55mpg .
We have taken it to spain every year for the last 5 .
It comes with a clip on drive away awning. we remove the seat's and it takes a full size air bed, then you have the awning for all your kit.
They also have very good ground clearance.

Good choice of vehicle (but I'd go for the Van)

My neighbour is a self-employed courior and his van has done at least a couple of hundred thousand miles. It's had three driver's seats (he's in and out of it all day) an exhaust and a couple of water-pumps. Other than that, just your normal service/consumables.

Hey Ted, I know Dazzer and his van, and must say that with all those windows its great for dogging:rofl:

What happened to the multiquote function ??? Anyway...

I did look at wheel chair ramp versions but they take up a lot of space inside the van when they are stowed. Not practical.

Dazzers Partner looks good. I could be interested in that... Dazzer, PM sent !!


Dogging windows is what won me over... I hope there's a good interior light too.

I forgot to mention that we will be sending Blind Pew around to hand you the black spot, keep an eye out for him.

Definitely van. Besides motos, I've travelled in Land Rover, and Jeep, and if you're going to go 4 wheels, you might as well go 'luxury'! There's nothing like crawling in the back and having a bed already set up after a long day.

Multi-quote works fine for me :) What was the issue? Let me know in the website feedback forum please!

Transporters, campers in disguise!

You can get one with one row of seats in so its a bit like a twin cab. Replace those seats with swivel seats so you can turn them round to face in and you have a very useful space. My sister needed a van for work and a car for the family with seats and it perfectly ticked both boxes. Not to mention their very good reputation for reliability. I haven't worked on a peugeot/citroen for ages but what I remember isn't pretty (although I should admit I have never worked on a berlingo)

I ended up buying a Citroen Berlingo Multispace.

It's pretty much a small van with windows and back seats.

It's slow and drives/sounds like a van but jeeeez it's practical. I can comfortably sit five people in there with room in the back for loads of camping equipment.

I could unbolt the back seats and easily fit in a large double air bed.

I have the added benefit of having the ability to cart around stuff that just won't fit in a car. It's going to great for surfing, canoeing etc.

It's very simple, cheap to fix and about as attractive to thieves as the back of a police van in Oman.

Best of all. It cost me £1000 for a ten year old model with low miles.

Congrats, that's really a bargain.:thumbup1:

You can go for a IKEA sofa bed mattres (sold separately), cheap and very comfortable. Cuts in 1/3 and 2/3, so make another cut for better storage. 1,40m wide, could be perfect or may have to cut a very little bit all along. And if it's a high van on the back, you could even hang it with bungies from the ceiling.

Example here on our old beloved Renault 4 van (no back seats, though).

Even if there's much more room, I'd emphasize not overloading, same as bikes (you know well, though)... travel light, just your backpacks/luggage and a few essential things (like tools and a pressure cooker :innocent:). It will suffer much less on bad roads and also at some point the car may be left behind.

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