Saturday, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:58
My wife and I had a
Penguin Outback which we bought new about five years ago. As has been said, they are designed for outback gravel roads, not off road. For that we found ours was very good.
As far as space is concerned, they do not have the room of a slide out bed model, but then they are much quicker to set up and you don't have to sleep in the little tents "outside". Everything is a compromise. We bought the
Penguin specifically because it was much more caravan like, and were not disappointed.
The interior room is adequate for two, and the cafe style dining area is very good.
We cut down the "wardrobe" to be the same height as
the bench, and used it for storage of jug, coffee, mugs etc. It made a big difference to the usability of the interior space. We also changed the fixed table to a quickly removable one, so that we could open up the internal space even more for sitting around.
My wife found that the front wall was too cold (we camped in temperatures as low as -6) for her in bed, so we fitted matching padded cloth to the front and near side walls, which fixed the problem and made it look much nicer. I had to shorten the bed by an inch or so so that it would still lift up with the thicker side wall, but that was pretty easy.
We found the factory supplied battery to be adequate.
Compared with a tent it was absolute luxury. The only down side for us was the shortage of space for clothes.
We only got rid of ours because we developed a yearning for a full sized van with shower and
toilet which we now have, but we lost virtually nothing in depreciation when we sold the
Penguin.
Hope this ramble helps.
Cheers
Terry
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