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This is a ‘van that has a lot to live up to. At its launch last summer, I said I couldn't wait to test it. At the October NEC show, we announced it was the Compact Motorhome of the Year. And then, after more deliberation with the judges, we awarded it the overall Motorhome of the Year 2024 title. Following on from the spectacularly innovative Hymer Venture S, the previous year's victor in the reborn awards, is a really big ask for any motorhome.
But maybe the stars had already aligned in Chausson's favour. The original X model, the X550, was described as “even better than we hoped it would be” in the Summer 2021 road test.
Our YouTube video review has had over 790,000 views and buyers were so numerous that the model was temporarily withdrawn from the brochure for a whole year to give the Trigano VDL factory time to catch up with demand.
For 2024, the X550 is back with a bigger brother, the X650, which aims to add the one element missing from the original – a garage. And, this being a Chausson (perhaps Europe's most innovative motorhome brand), it's not just a conventional garage. As we'll explain, it's a whole lot more, too.
Nor is the X650 much bigger. Only 37cm longer than its little brother,
