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ADRIA ACTIVE DUO
Price from: £62,795
Berths: 4 Travel seats: 4
Base vehicle: Renault Trafic
Length: 4.99m
Gross weight: 3,010kg
You can get a much bigger coachbuilt motorhome for less money – that's the retort from some readers whenever we test a pop-top model like this new Adria. It's true, of course – the starting price for Auto-Trail's new Excel low-profile range (tested last month), is in a similar ballpark to the much smaller Active Duo, which doesn't have a washroom or even a loo.
However, that is to entirely miss the point. As well as having the advantage of being small enough to squeeze down those Cornish lanes where grass is growing between your wheels, a campervan like this must be able to act as a daily driver – popping to the supermarket or the office, parking in town centres and taking the kids to school. You won't be doing any of that in your tag-axle A-class.
Cutting down on the number of vehicles in your fleet and running a camper day-to-day also has benefits in terms of insurance, servicing and MoT costs, of course, but the campervan in question must be good at both leisure and the more mundane roles. So,
