Practical Motorhome Magazine March 2019 Edizione posteriore

PLAN YOUR PERFECT 2019
In an ideal world, ’van manufacturers would work out which models and layouts have sold the most, and why, then put the best bits from each together to make a world-beater. This idea seems to have informed Auto-Sleepers in creating the Symbol Plus. The new model takes the L-shaped kitchen and rear washroom from the Stanway, and adds it to the Symbol’s front lounge. Auto-Sleepers’ customers liked the rear layout in the Stanway, but weren’t taken by its front lounge, one reason why it has been discontinued. So the thinking is that you enjoy the front lounge from the Symbol, with its sidefacing sofa and nearside forward-facing travel seat, tacked to the Stanway’s rear, on the 6m, longwheelbase Peugeot Boxer. It certainly appealed to our Motorhome of the Year 2019 judges, who awarded the Symbol Plus first place in the high-top van conversion category. But on a three-day trip to Sussex in December, how did it fare?