Roller Team is an Italian motorhome manufacturer based in Tuscany, although these Tolenos are converted in the UK by Auto-Trail, in North Lincolnshire! Confused? An explanation follows…
The company was originally called Auto-Roller (now a range name) and was formed to retail caravan parts to the trade. Their first coachbuilt motorhomes appeared in the early 1990s. These successfully undercut established Italian value-for-money converters and the company was quickly taken over by Gruppo CI, run by the charismatic Pierluigi Alinari.
Subsequently, Auto-Trail got into difficulty and Pierluigi rescued them, promising production would continue in the UK – which thankfully it did! Later, both marques became part