landiepete wrote:

Your comment is ill informed and frankly dangerous. Yes, nose weight is important but, contrary to e.g. US vans, severely limited.
Secondly left-right weight of a van in Europe is seldom balanced.

Your comment indicates to me you have very little experience pulling (large) caravans and as such you may consider refraining from commenting on the subject.

DSL wrote:

Saw lots and lots and lots of great looking combos in Aus last year. Not a lot pulled by LRs but managed to snap a pic of this one in Pemberton, WA.


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weapon of choice in Australia is the Tojo LC100/200/70 series typically,many of which require GVM upgrades to tow a big van. It is quite common for people to go on the road in Oz for extended periods of time from 3-18 months, the big lap being the
ultimate road trip, hence the bias towards off road vans, especially with at least a reasonable level of off grid capability,
say up to a week at a time.. Heading off on our big lap once we have ordered and taken delivery of our Zone Base RV.. I am
sure the the P400 should pull 3-3.2T with no drama, well except for the fuel consumption

Edited: Cruisemaster have done a few videos with the new Defender, even picking it up when they were looking to replace
their Landcruiser . Apparently he has history with Land Rover, his grandfather Arthur was the Chief Engineer on the Series 1,
and his father manufactured panels for Disco's back in the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lknta5TTc...MABz1RKeAr yet another pommie bar steward down under

MY20 110 P400 SE Defender
MY10 3.0 RR Sport

zilch wrote:

Edited: Cruisemaster have done a few videos with the new Defender, even picking it up when they were looking to replace
their Landcruiser . Apparently he has history with Land Rover, his grandfather Arthur was the Chief Engineer on the Series 1,
and his father manufactured panels for Disco's back in the UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lknta5TTc...MABz1RKeAr

landiepete wrote:

The issue with these things is not the weight, but the very large frontal surface causing air resistance (and thus required work) to exponentionalrise rise with speed.

Your comment reminded me of seeing this:

The KABE Royal Tower

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https://rvdaily.com.au/the-kabe-royal-towe...k-caravan/

zilch wrote:

The Offroad Zone RV (used) typically comes in around 2.5- 2.8T TARE, so that has likely been loaded up to the gills if it is at
3.3T. Ordering a Zone base off road for our lap of Australian they are generally one of the lighter Off Road Caravans by
length compared to many of their competitors, mainly due to composite construction. Lucky we ordered the 5+2 Defender
(have to listen to the wife more often ) it has a higher payload allowance on the rear axle, 1900KG rather than 1800KG..

They were not clear if they were using their airbag suspension, if so, i am assuming you can drop the hitch height by setting
the van at a lower ride for on road..

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In the vid he stated that the car had airbag suspension, and they added an adjustable hitch to get correct tow ball height.

interested in whether the Zone had the cruisemaster air suspension or standard coils.. on the off chance if you fit the
air, you may be able to run at a lower on-road height.. Off road not to fussed as i can jack the Defender up a bit
on the off road setting to meet the hitch.. Good luck with your new Zone , only about to place an order in the next
week or so.. yet another pommie bar steward down under

MY20 110 P400 SE Defender
MY10 3.0 RR Sport