Cub Campers renews its range

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, Sydney-based camper-trailer manufacturer Cub Campers has given its range of affordable hard-floor tent trailers a re-style for 2018, including new body panels, new graphics,  new canvas alloy locker doors and a greater range of colours and option packs.

On display at this week's Sydney Caravan Expo, range has been reduced to a more simplified seven offerings, now starting with the 2.2-metre Weekender, Explorer and Brumby, the 2.6-metre Traveller and Escape the 3.2-metre Longreach and the forward-fold Frontier.

The Platinum colour range offers buyers eight new hues: Carbon, Mica, Sapphire, Solaire, Meteor, Platinum, Ruby and Bronze, which according to Cub Campers'  NSW Retail Manager Matt Kennelly, “match popular colours of cars today”.

“We’ve just put in a whole new spray booth in the factory so that we can do all this, which became operational in April," he said.

The Australian Wax Converters Dynaproof canvas has also had a colour change - it's now a lighter grey colour than before.

The canvas comes with Velcro already fitted for the new for 2018 (optional) privacy screen. The centre-zipper screen separates the living and sleeping quarters.

The winch fitted as standard is now the ‘silent winch’, which obviously dispenses with the loud ratchet clicking of the previous winch.

Tool box and hatch panels are now painted steel to match the body (instead of checkerplate) and the stone guard is also new for 2018, featuring an elongated, wrap-around protection.

Cub has also bundled popular options into packs on several models. For example, the Escape offers the Adventure Pack for $1300 (saving $469), which includes a second 100A/h battery, a second 80L water tank, a utility rack and a utility spare wheel bracket.

The Frontier now comes with an integrated Truma hot water/shower unit as an option that “will be phased into the other models in the next six months or so”, said Kennelly.

The Escape and Longreach get Cub’s own coil-spring independent suspension as standard for 2018 while Weekender and Traveller are now equipped with AL-KO leaf-spring suspension for 2018.

The premium model, the $35,990 drive-away Longreach, has new opening double-glazed windows, a new premium slide-out kitchen, 17in black alloys and increased water capacity (now 100 litres).

Cub Campers is one of the few remaining camper-trailer manufacturers based in Australia, first opening a factory in Sydney in 1968. Cub makes its own chassis, body, kitchen, electric harnesses, toolbox and tent in house in its premises in North Rocks.