GORV - Digital Magazine Issue #40 | Page 16

The kitchen comes with a cooktop, griller and oven, a stainless steel sink with flick-mixer tap and filtered drinking water, and a large compressor fridge. There are a few features of the lounge worth pointing out. First, it has a table that can swivel in any direction to allow easy access, and its telescopic leg allows the table to lower to form the base of another bed by pressing a button with your foot. There are a couple of LED reading lights provided, along with 240V and 12V powerpoints at the rear end of the lounge. A 12V point at the forward end would be a welcome addition but was not fitted to our van. A BMPRO Genius 35 battery management system takes up one of the lounge’s overhead lockers – as standard, the van comes with two 150W solar panels and two 100Ah AGM batteries. In the nose of the van, Kokoda has fitted two bunks; however, if you were to fit a third bunk, you would lose your external storage boot. There are a number of things that appealed to me here. One: each bunk had an optional 12V fan, a standard 240V powerpoint and a standard 12V USB port. Two: the kids’ wardrobe is large, and Kokoda has even fitted a front-loader washing machine here. Three: there is easy access to the under-bunk storage space. Meanwhile, on the offside, you’ll find a separate and surprisingly spacious toilet cubicle complete with a small vanity/ washbasin, and another separate cubicle for the fully-moulded fibreglass shower. It’s fair to say that this rig comes out of the factory fitted-out for comfortable, convenient caravanning for two parents and two kids. Kokoda has even fitted piano hinges to the locker doors for extra rigidity.