MEASURING UP
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PROS
Beautifully
finished inside and
out
Rugged offroad
capability
Generous electronics package
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CONS
Needs a higher capacity tow vehicle
“So, it's roomy inside and takes advantage of the space with a large dining area”
Just like his innovative and hard core offroaders, Sunland Caravans owner, Roy Wyss has taken the road less travelled on his path as one of our most outstanding manufacturers. Roy started Sunland Caravans in 2003 and purchased Phoenix Caravans around 10 years ago. Roy reckons Phoenix was the first offroad caravan builder anywhere. The brand began as a caravan repair company before branching out into modifying touring vans of the early 90s with a tougher suspension to cope with outback travel. Eventually Phoenix took to making offroaders from the ground up.
These days the combined Sunland/Phoenix business operates over two sprawling factories on opposite sides of the road in the Caboolture industrial area where the business builds almost everything in-house.
Getting hold of a Sunland for review was almost impossible because the demand is so strong that the vans are on their way to new owners as soon as quality control is complete.
However, we were lucky enough that the new owner of the model on review had to delay his journey to Queensland for pickup and was happy to hand it
