fit for holiday use? I must have been on a permenant very comfortable holiday for the past ten and half years then !!
I think that there is a lot of 'verbal disdain' of mass built production Motorhomes which, unsurprisingly, is in the main by those who have built their own. Now I am on my fifth production built Motorhome and like them, generally because I have neither had the time, the facilities, the knowledge or more importantly the confidence to have a go at building my own, that doesn't make me a bad person, although it may in some other people's views

However, and let us stop being understandably defensive of our mass produced vehicles, for they are primarily built and sold as casual use 'holiday' vehicles and not as permanent 'fulltime' liveaboard homes. That is not to say that they cannot be used for that purpose, that is not to say that they are less spacious or indeed less comfortable than self builds, there is so much choice out there these days on chassis types, engine variations, equipment levels and internal layouts that the biggest factor is 'cost' and 'age' of vehicle.
The difference with self builds is that the person doing it has more individual choice on the layout that suits them, the chassis and the equipment levels, and if they get it right, the satisfaction of having built something themselves with their own hands, which must bring a great deal of personal satisfaction and pride. Then there is the point that Coola makes, if you have built it yourself completely, then if something does go wrong, you know how to fix it. With mass produced vehicles, unless you strip everything back yourself, then it is not always obvious where cables, ducts and pipe work are located and quite often they can be difficult to access.
Personally I disagree that 'all' mass produced vehicles are uncomfortable or cannot be made homely, although to be fair, Coola only stated that he found 'the ones that he had been in' to be uncomfortable and not homely, so obviously he did not, for whatever reason, have the right vehicle. Certainly my Autotrail Comanche was very comfortable and very homely

Some who have completed self builds give an opinion that mass produced vehicles are not 'fit for purpose', again, personally, I disagree with that opinion solely because it depends on the individual's purpose. If they bought and use it to travel on normal accessible roads, to stay on Campsites or Aires, or to use it to do some free camping and the vehicle does this, then it is fit for purpose. So, if you want to go off roading down muddy rutted tracks, or go into the desert, or stay in the mountains in snow and ice, to ski or snowboard etc. then I guess that it would be very adviseable to purchase, or build, a vehicle that is fit for that purpose, simples
