RV REVIEW

THIS VAN IS SOMETHING ELSE

Everest Caravans is a boutique custom builder in Australia ’ s caravan manufacturing heartland : Campbellfield , Vic . Having had plenty of dealings with this brand over the years , including towing and reviewing loads of their models , I ’ ve concluded that this company is the real deal . While it ’ s a small outfit that builds only a couple of vans a month , each van is a meticulous labour of love – the owner , Louie , is on the tools while his wife , Aneta , helps run the business side of things . Louie , by the way , takes his work seriously . If it has his reputation attached to it , he makes sure it ’ s as perfect as possible .

Anyone whose dealt with Everest before , or perhaps owns an Everest van , would agree with the above statement , I think . In early September , Aneta called because Louie was about to finish a specced-out version of its Kombat off-roader , the Kombat Performance . Everest builds all vans to order and as such , this one was about to be shipped off to its new owner … but Everest really wanted to show us the van first !

I ’ m glad they did . They told me that this van was a beast – and they were right .

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