Skyline Series

Couples and families who want a caravan they can live in properly and still take down a gravel road — without buying an expedition rig for the two weekends a year it would matter. It suits first-time full-caravan buyers, people upgrading from an older van, and camper trailer owners who are done with setup.

Yes, in the honest sense of the word: sealed roads, maintained gravel access and short-to-medium off-grid stops — not hardcore off-road or expedition use. The difference from an on-road-only caravan shows up in the suspension and tyres, how the underbody copes with stones, and how well the body is sealed against dust and water; a full off-road build goes further again, at a real cost in weight and towing capacity. Skyline is built for the middle deliberately: torsion axle suspension and all-terrain tyres for the corrugations, a sealed composite body for the dust and stone chips. What any individual van handles still depends on the model, the load, the tow vehicle and the road on the day, and we would rather say that here than have you find out somewhere remote.

The shorter Skyline models sit on a 2,500 kg ATM, which keeps them inside the towing capacity of a wider range of vehicles than the 3,000 kg models. Towing capacity on its own does not settle it, though — your combination has to stay legal on three numbers at once: braked towing capacity compared against the van’s ATM (not its Tare, which is the van empty), towball download (the weight pressing down on the ball, which your vehicle and towbar each have their own limit for), and your vehicle’s own GVM and GCM, which is where otherwise legal-looking combinations come unstuck once the family, fuel and gear are loaded. Every model’s page has its exact ATM, Tare, payload and ball weight — bring your tow vehicle details to a viewing and we will check the match properly.

It is planned as one system: solar and driving charge the battery, one control screen shows what is happening, and the inverter supplies 240V away from a powered site. See Energy & Control for the full picture. Capacity and components vary by model and version.

Skyline uses a timberless composite wall system, a sealed exterior and an engineered chassis-and-drawbar structure. See What it is made of for the materials, construction logic and what to inspect at a viewing.

That has to be answered for a specific model and version — a washing machine is standard on most Skyline models — check the current spec for your selected model to confirm whether it’s included. Ask us to confirm the current configuration in writing before you order. It is the single most common source of confusion in this industry and we would rather remove it than inherit it.

Five answers usually get you to two models: who travels, how you want to sleep, whether the bathroom is a priority, what you tow with, and where you plan to go. Bring the tow vehicle details to a viewing and we will work through it properly.

No. The roof supports roof-mounted equipment and normal service access, but it is not designed or approved as a walkable surface. Anyone who tells you otherwise about any caravan is doing you no favours.