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Big sales at Queensland show
The chequebooks were out in force at this year's Queensland caravan show which attracted more than 50,000 people and $50 million in salesBig crowds, striking new releases and strong sales, were the major themes of the 48th annual Queensland Caravan, Camping and Touring Supershow held at Brisbane’s RNA Showgrounds from June 8-13.
Show organiser, Caravanning Queensland, said that more than 900 RV vehicles worth $50 million were sold over the course of the show, which attracted more than 50,000 showgoers through the gates over the six days.
Sunland Caravans’ managing director Roy Wyss was one of the happiest exhibitors by show's end, reporting record sales of 25 caravans valued at more than $3 million.
Wyss said it wasn’t the number of sales that surprised him, rather the price range people were shopping in.
“After a successful show last year where people really enjoyed our entry level caravan, the Sunland LT, we anticipated another year of strong sales in this market,” he said.
“Surprisingly, we sold just two in this category, and the majority of our sales were our top of the range model, the SELX, which retails at about $140,000.”
Another buyer with deep pockets at the show was the Singapore businessman who snapped up the first Soul caravan that, with an eye-watering price tag of $185,689 is probably the most expensive van ever sold Down Under.
Other leading manufacturers reported strong sales, many off the back of new product releases including Avida RV which promoted its forthcoming, entry-level Spirit campervan, Australian Off Road which debuted its new hard-walled Odyssey camper and Kedron Caravans, whose display was dominated by the latest TopEnder model complete with game-changing new KRS airbag suspension.
Show manager, Jason Plant, said crowd numbers were up by nine percent on last year’s attendance by the Sunday, followed by only a small crowd on the final day as unlike other states a public holiday wasn’t held in Queensland on June 13.
“Even without the Queen’s Birthday public holiday that we’ve enjoyed in previous years, our exhibitors recorded bumper sales, some even experiencing record years,” he said.
Other exciting new product releases among the 250 exhibitor displays included System Campers’ new slide-on camper, a new off-road model from micro-van builder Silversun, Complete Campsite’s new power-operated Fraser hard-floor camper, Roadstar’s rebadged new entry-level GT Sport, the Oz-first electric roof-top tent from BackTrax, Winnebago’s latest Aussie-built Mossman van, Freedom RV’s new Wild Child family van and Swift UK’s first locally-built Trail caravan
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Other highlights included a car-carrying German Concorde motorhome
, another appearance of Australia’s first caravan
, the latest bright blue Aura off-road caravan, and a production version of Cruisemaster’s military-grade and very expensive new top-spec ATX off-road suspension
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, another appearance of Australia’s first caravan
, the latest bright blue Aura off-road caravan, and a production version of Cruisemaster’s military-grade and very expensive new top-spec ATX off-road suspension
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Also drawing a crowd was Dometic’s announcement at the show of the Follow the Sun promotion winners
, while one very lucky showgoer from Esk in Queensland picked up the major Passport Competition prize
of a $70,000 Bailey Rangefinder Nebula caravan.
, while one very lucky showgoer from Esk in Queensland picked up the major Passport Competition prize
of a $70,000 Bailey Rangefinder Nebula caravan.
Also helping pull in the punters was a number of celebrity appearances, including ‘Mr 4x4' Pat Callinan and Mal Leyland of Leyland Brothers fame, who was one of the daily seminar presenters.
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Written byChris Fincham
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