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Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« on: November 17, 2010, 10:43:35 AM »
 Anyone surprised?
Must be the colour of the canvas that clinched it. Flame suit on!
  :cup: >:D
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #6 on: November 17, 2010, 11:08:09 AM »
That's nice Toad........................yawn.  ;D
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #7 on: November 17, 2010, 11:51:02 AM »
Anyone surprised?
Must be the colour of the canvas that clinched it. Flame suit on!
  :cup: >:D
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Was it a magazine....or you ????
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #8 on: November 17, 2010, 12:00:08 PM »
Anyone surprised?
Must be the colour of the canvas that clinched it. Flame suit on!
  :cup: >:D
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As voted by who ????

Was it a magazine....or you ????

G'day gronk, it was.....ta da.....Camper Trailer Australia magazine.
And me.
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #9 on: November 17, 2010, 12:10:15 PM »
I think i need a BEX and a lie down after this ;D ;D
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2010, 12:16:14 PM »
Holy cow! that is a $52 000 camper!  That is worth approximately the same as :
my car + my wifes car + our camper trailer

I need a different job, clearly i am earning $100k too little every year!

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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2010, 01:26:49 PM »



I need a different job, clearly i am earning $100k too little every year!





Yep.....only the wealthy can afford canvas that looks that good !!!!!! >:D >:D

Us poor people have to put up with ordinary looking khaki colour canvas !!!!!!! :D :D :D :cup:
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #12 on: November 17, 2010, 01:28:17 PM »
Is that the real colour canvas or has it been photo-shopped ?.

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« Reply #13 on: November 17, 2010, 01:46:07 PM »
But if you can afford one those campers why would you pull it with a 'bendy' Ute?

Dear Me! Does that ute color match the camper? Is there matching undies?

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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #14 on: November 17, 2010, 08:34:57 PM »
For 52K ....... it would want to come with a happy ending ;D Yeah that kind of happy ending 8)

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« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2010, 08:04:27 AM »
For 52K ....... it would want to come with a happy ending ;D Yeah that kind of happy ending 8)
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2010, 08:20:12 AM »
For 52K ....... it would want to come with a happy ending ;D Yeah that kind of happy ending 8)

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It would want to come with a years supply of happy ending ;D

$52,000 for a camper trailer, good bloody grief

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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #17 on: November 18, 2010, 08:34:36 AM »
Ya bunch of sour pusses.   :angel:

I've got an AORC, I share it with Mrs T.  Fully optioned it cost us twice as much as my first home (Melb circa 1980) but after much consideration we decided that it was built like a brick Shit-house, would last us the last 20+ years of our travelling, and gave us an acceptable level of comfort.  And, Mrs T no longer have to suffer watching me zip the canvas awning on.   ;D

After a year of ownership we remain very happy with our purchase, and have found the after sales service from AORC to be second to none, WITHOUT EXCEPTION.   :cup:
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #18 on: November 18, 2010, 04:45:13 PM »
Fully optioned it cost us twice as much as my first home (Melb circa 1980)

I bet you wish that you still owned that house today - it would probably pay for 10 Quantums by now!!

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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #19 on: November 18, 2010, 09:19:39 PM »
For 52K ....... it would want to come with a happy ending ;D Yeah that kind of happy ending 8)

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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #20 on: November 18, 2010, 09:51:21 PM »


I need a different job, clearly i am earning $100k too little every year!





Yep.....only the wealthy can afford canvas that looks that good !!!!!! >:D >:D

Us poor people have to put up with ordinary looking khaki colour canvas !!!!!!! :D :D :D :cup:
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #21 on: November 23, 2010, 08:37:15 AM »
Those of you who think a job like this might get easier every time you do it are not well acquainted with me. I have a predilection, maybe an illness, for making things more complicated than they need to be. We could have just assembled a bunch of campers in a paddock and had our way with them, but I wanted to put them through their paces, on a journey through southeast Queensland that fairly replicated the kind of work a real offroad camper will be asked to do on the average trip away.
This entailed a 3am start on the first day to make sunrise on the beach just north of Noosa, 60km of beach driving to make it to Double Island Point, and then up the Freshwater track to Rainbow Beach in the dark. Throw in one of the first hot days of the season, a few guys stuck in the sand along the way and some serious dehydration and you’ve got Day One.
We woke up, less than refreshed and were on the road with the sun again on the way to LandCruiser Mountain Park, a few hours south and west, which means the boonies! But what a trip. We cut through Old Yabba Creek Road and the Kingham station, some of the most beautiful rolling countryside around, with creek crossings, stags and plenty of cattle competing for the road with our convoy, about 500m long standing still. As bloody great at LMP is, this is a great example of the journey being better than the destination. We rolled into LMP around lunch time, ensconced up at the Billabong campground, and set about exploring the park, running the trailers up some gruelling terrain along the way. Photographer Ellen and the camera boys from Your4x4, Kris and Liam, had their hands full trying to capture everything for the mag and DVD you now hold in your hands. Unfortunately, I had to drive my 76 Series over all those gnarly obstacles myself, having a good time instead of working in the office! By the time the sun set on us again, we were ready for a roaring fire, a few XXXXs and some campfire cooking. I made the crew hobo packs, which they took to like hungry, well, hobos.
The next morning we started early again, exploring a little further around the park, finding those tracks that would really challenge the best offroad campers at their limits. And throughout all of this chaos, the judges were spending plenty of time looking over every camper in detail, crawling in, on and under them to help in the decision-making process. When it was all said and done, me and the other three judges sat down to nut out the winners. I figured it would take us 45 minutes or so. Nearly four hours later, we emerged from deliberation haggard men, but haggard men with a list of winners.
Needless to say, the sun set again, and we announced the winners around the campfire. I got a little teary-eyed and hoarse, but I swear it was the smoke. I’m just starting to grow the hair back on my shins now!
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« Reply #22 on: November 23, 2010, 09:26:55 AM »
This just my opinion and i don't mean to be offensive but:   who is your audience?
For the majority of people the winner is so out of their price range that it is totally irrelevant. This is not the fault of the mag but the fault of the price of the camper. 

I am confused on this topic. Clearly people buy these things and clearly they are teh best available (made to a specification not a price). The information/reviews need to be printed but... other than a few wealthy people, who cares?

Then again, the audience may be very well off people who want to spend that sort of coin on a camper not a caravan. Who knows.

The whole concept of a $52k tent on wheels raises far too many questions.

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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #23 on: November 23, 2010, 10:02:22 AM »
This just my opinion and i don't mean to be offensive but:   who is your audience?
For the majority of people the winner is so out of their price range that it is totally irrelevant. This is not the fault of the mag but the fault of the price of the camper. 

I am confused on this topic. Clearly people buy these things and clearly they are teh best available (made to a specification not a price). The information/reviews need to be printed but... other than a few wealthy people, who cares?

Then again, the audience may be very well off people who want to spend that sort of coin on a camper not a caravan. Who knows.

The whole concept of a $52k tent on wheels raises far too many questions.

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While I agree about the steepish price......what do most people drive for a 4WD ??

Maybe a poll to determine how many spent near or over $52K.......

I know a lot of people out there are driving around in new ( or fairly new ) Prado's, Pajero's, 200 series... etc etc !!

I also know some people are driving around in older ( and cheaper ) 4WD's as well.....but as always, there is a mix of people who have different priorities in life.....and different salaries as well !!

There is a limit in most peoples minds as to how much to pay for something....and that can be $8000 for a camper or it may be $60,000.....

As to a few wealthy people ????     KK sell approx 400 a year.....AORC probably sell over 100....as do Aussie Swag......as do T Van......and Ultimate......and add to that the $30K plus soft floor palaces as well and you'll find its a fairly big slice of the market !!!!!

I went from a soft floor to a hard floor 5 yrs ago and to jump from $4K to $20K was certainly a decision to make you wonder what the hell are you doing.....its only camping !!!       But a decision I didn't regret.....have used it over 80 times since....( on the 2nd hard floor now )

While I have a hard floor ( and very happy with it ) I would step up to something like a Vista if I had a chance........but the extra $20K needed is that thing in MY mind saying hang on.....how much more do you need to spend !!!!!!....and thats the thing....in YOUR mind that limit maybe as low as $5K......

But as you say, its still a tent on wheels and as long as it gets you out there to enjoy the bush, its all that matters !!!
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Re: Camper Trailer of the Year - AORC Odyssey Export Signature
« Reply #24 on: November 23, 2010, 10:03:20 AM »
I'll second that schmik the worst part about it having brought the mag it that the judging category's start at 20-35k!! what the f&$k cant u get a good camper for under 20k these days i think this mag is a bit out of touch with most peoples reality!! ???
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