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APOCALYPSE NOW

It must be hell in the marketing department of a caravan company. In the past, you used to be able to choose an iconic destination such as Longreach or Nullaboor as a name for your new model — until all the best names were taken.

With the arrival of big outlandish offroaders, the fight was on for the toughest name. A name such as the Force outgunned the Brigade and was inevitably followed by the Grenade.

Over at Highline, the Beast slugged it out with the Enforcer until we finally arrive at the company’s Apocalypse. Happily, it's not the end of the line because the name can mean a fresh beginning into a brave new world — and that's how I see the new model on show here. The Apocalypse is its latest premium model, so new that at the time of printing it hadn’t even made it onto the company’s website.

“They have satisfied all angles with the brothers’ input to the moderately macho exterior and the softer touch of the interior

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