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BAILEY ADAMO 75-4T
Price from: £75,499
Berths: 4 Travel seats: 4
Base vehicle: Ford Transit
Length: 7.49m
Gross weight: 3,500kg
It’s 35 degrees – probably more inside the motorhome – and, all around are sand dunes, perfectly formed hills of yellow against a cloudless azure sky. It’s the sort of terrain that you can very easily get a vehicle stuck in (ahem), if you stray off the tracks signalled only by the tyre marks left by other vehicles.
I’m in the Sahara, not in some 4×4 behemoth with Tonka Toy proportions, but a totally standard front-wheel drive Bailey Adamo. Well, standard apart from the rather eye-catching camel graphics and alloy wheels wrapped in chunky General Grabber AT3 rubber. Oh, and a completely normal Thule roll-out awning that any dealer can fit.
We’re on the Bailey of Bristol Sahara Challenge 2 – a road trip from the west country to the African desert. The company’s fourth endurance tour, this one is 2,735 miles and we’re here, not to get an early season tan, but to try the latest Adamo motorhome.
Bailey’s Ford-based low-profile motorhome range debuted for the 2021 season with three models.
It already completely dominates the company’s motorhome production figures and the line-up has been expanded this year to five variants, including a compact six-metre model (60-4) and a twin
