TESTED Rapido C86i
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RAPIDO C86I
Price from: £83,800
Berths: 4 Travel seats: 4
Base vehicle: Fiat Ducato
Length: 6.99m
Gross weight: 3,500kg
This might have seemed inevitable. First came Rapido's C Series low-profile range - a selection of narrow-bodied low-profiles as the brand's entry-level ’vans - in 2021. Then, from within the group and built at the same French factory, the Itineo Famili Compact line-up arrived a year later, offering A-classes that are both more affordable and slimmer on the road than most of their ilk. Now, completing Rapido Group's trio of more compact motorhomes, comes the C Series A-class.
Launched last September, there are two C Series A-classes (joining the existing four low-profiles).
You can choose from the 6.72m C55i with single beds and the longer island bed C86i. Each has an overall width of just 2.17m (18cm less than a typical A-class), taking them into a niche with few rivals, especially if you want an island bed.
Established entrants such as the Dethleffs Globebus and Hymer Exsis-i are only sold here with twin bed layouts, while Adria's appropriately named Compact offers an island bed, but comes only in low-profile form.
It's no surprise then that Wokingham Motorhomes, the UK's original Rapido dealer, reports strong interest in the C86i.
Many of those sales are likely to be driven not
