World's biggest motorhome for sale

Looking for something suitably sumptuous to take on your next driving holiday?

The biggest, and most expensive, we could find on Caravancampingsales.com.au was this ‘power everything’ 40ft long, Volvo-powered motorhome priced at a cool $625,000.

But if that’s not ostentatious enough, or your budget stretches a bit further, there’s always ‘Der Bus’, classified by the Guiness Book of Records as the largest, street registered motorhome and currently for sale.

Making any Winnebago look like a Mini, the doubledeck articulated coach first saw the light of day at the 1975 Frankfurt Motor Show, where it was dubbed the ‘Jumbocruiser’. One of 12 built, it was capable of transporting 144 passengers at the time, but in recent years has been subjected to a 25,000 man hour conversion and now functions as a gigantic motorhome cum mobile entertainment centre.

Some of its many outlandish features include a roof platform running the entire length of the vehicle. Bigger than many people’s homes, the upper deck below spans 45 square metres and incorporates a bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom and guests’ berths.

While in the lower deck, next to the driver’s cab and eight seats are a working and conference centre as well as a bar – perfect for entertaining the entire caravan park during happy hour!

The rear section is set aside as a garage and material storage room.

Powered by a V12 Mercedes-Benz diesel engine, the titantic mobile home measures 18m long, 4m high and 2.5m wide, and weighs 28 tons, so you’ll probably need an airport hangar to store it.

It comes with enough power sources to light up a small town, including six gel batteries and a water-cooled generator that generates so much heat, some of it's used to heat the motorhome. New owners can also look forward to long, hot showers, with 670 litres total water capacity.

And there’s been no expense spared on decor either, with various combinations of leather, aluminium, timber, corian, velour, stainless steel, chrome and carpets spread throughout the interior.

Along with the 17m x 2m roof platform, there’s also a 9m x 5m video projection screen and sound system and show lighting installatioin.

German owner Manfred Esterbauer hasn’t listed an asking price on the Der Bus website for his unique, left-hand drive motorhome, but as they say, if you have to ask you probably can’t afford it...