→ Price £127,500 → Sleeps 4 → Belts 4 → Base vehicle Mercedes Sprinter → Engine 170bhp with automatic transmission → Length/width/height 8.39/2.47/2.78m (27’6”/8’1”/9’1”) → MTPLM 4500kg → Payload 700kg → Water (fresh/waste) 87/90 litres → Leisure battery 92Ah → Gas 1 x 10kg
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For pretty much all of the past decade, Hull-based Coachman was happy to pursue a path as the UK’s only mass market caravan manufacturer that hadn’t also moved into making motorhomes.
That all changed when KABE took full control of the company in February 2021. The Swedish firm was already known for making motorhomes in its home market, and it now wanted to do something similar in the UK.
The fallout from the pandemic has meant the emergence of the resulting two-model Travel Master range has been a bit stop and start. But in April, we were able to take the single-bed TM 565 out for a long-weekend test to Wharfedale, North Yorkshire.
Exterior and cab
It’s only when you look at it full side on that you appreciate just how long the TM 565 is, at 8.39m. With its sleek design, it certainly doesn’t look like the kind of giant that some vehicles of this length start to resemble.
You don’t really notice the length when you’re driving, either. There is a noticeable bulge in the roof, but we found that
