What is your towing car?

Originally posted by stewart smith Buy a banger and spend you money on a good boat. More fun!

whilst roof- topping my moth home i came to the realisation that the boat was worth 11 times what the car beneath was worth....

Don't touch an old, cheap Voyager or Galaxy with someone else's bargepole!! Nothing but trouble. The Toyota is by far the best bet. They even drive quite nicely.

By the time the people carrier is that old, it won't matter what the make is - it will be partly luck and partly skill in buying the one that won't break down somewhere in the middle of Europe.

Well in the last 14 months we've camped in excess of 40 nights in the T5, so that's about £300 a night on the purchase price. We plan to have this van for another 9 years at least, so it'll be pennies by the time we're done, but this doesn't account for the average £80-90 a night for hardened accommodation and food that we would have paid, or that we'd have an alternative car instead, that would have costs attached.

Originally posted by Rupert Tell you what, though, it means you can stagger out of a sailing club bar and straight to bed. Priceless...

Plus One for that....

T4 has been a revelation, masses of room for kit etc, as you say park up 10 yards from clubhouse, usually for free, have a brew when you want and the footprint of my short wheel base T4 is the same as an Audi A4 Avant (give or take the odd mm) so it's very practical for day to day motoring too.

I get around 40mpg which isn't special by modern diesel standards but isn't as bad as many vehicles.

Accommodation cost for nationals nil, several weekends at Weymouth and other venues nil, even the odd night at WPNSA  I seem to remember was about £15.

I was more interested in the convenience than the exact costs when I bought mine, but I would say I've probably saved quite a bit, and depreciation is low on campers of all types, certainly much less than the average car.