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The UK Love Campervans

Recent stats show love the love for campers

William Coleman

The Caravan and Motorhome Club have just published research showing how much we love camper vans in the UK – with over 90,000 VW camper vans currently circulating the UK.

Camper vans are a wide bracket of motorhomes but many consider the VW camper as the iconic camper van. It is easy to see why these are so popular with modern or classic styling, easy to drive, parking versatility and the ability to try this with small price tags. These campers also hold there value very well so why not give it go?

The research is full of interesting statistics and vital information about values and prices but we thought the best bit was what people called there VW.. our favourite was Nelson Van Dela.

A recent poll of van owners showed that nearly 10% of them call their vans after someone who they wanted to remember, had left them the money to buy the van or was special in their lives.

This was closely followed by owners giving names with ‘van’ in them such as Frank-en-van, Vanny-de-Vito, Nelson Van Dela and Dick Van Dyke. Other owners used music as their inspiration with Van Morrison featuring highly and then there are travel inspired van names including Skippy (Australia), Syd (Sydney). For those that let their children choose the name, they could end up with Vanny McVanface or the Bat Van!