Tested | 117
Even with the roof bed lowered you can scoot through underneath. Just… storage compartments and a bit of bench top area. Between the café style dinette and the rear bed, a full-height cupboard offers both hanging space and a cupboard below. Also stored there are the timber bits required to make up the dinette bed. The forward seat base can be lifted for extra storage, but the rear seat has a water tank underneath (the Euro habit is to mount the water tanks where they won’t freeze in winter). In the rear there is of course the fairly spacious under-bed area, but that also doubles as the external storage as well. Generally speaking on the storage front, the 259 scores quite well.
Sitting Back
A
lthough this is a six berth motorhome, the café style dinette is really for four people. With the reward-facing dinette seat back where it is, swivelling cab seats really aren’t going to help much. That said, the seating is quite comfortable and the table a good size. Watching the TV is a bit of a trick, given it’s located on a shelf above the
passenger seat and that it has quite a small screen. I’m thinking that a keen TV viewer will be purchasing a larger free-standing TV that sits on the cabinet opposite the dinette when parked-up. It can’t be a wall mount because of the drop down bed, but will improve evening entertainment considerably.
Ensuite
S
queezed in between the bed and the kerb-side corner, the bathroom isn’t particularly spacious but everything is there – a semi circular shower cubicle, cassette toilet and a small vanity sink and mirror. A non-fan hatch above the shower and a small window provide the ventilation.
Electrics
C
learly this 259 has had it’s electrics modified for Australian use, although I sometimes think it would be nice if the power points for instance, were colour coordinated instead of being stark white. Still, they were all located in the most user friendly places. There were even 12 V USB charging points; one under the table and one on the