Eriba or Freedom
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I don't think that you can compare the two. They are in a different league. The Freedom is a fairly basic caravan whereas the Eriba is an uplevel offering, very solid due to its metal frame construction and consequently not cheap, but it does hold its value very well because it's virtually indestructible (40 and even 50 year old examples are still to be found on the road).
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If I wanted a long term investment with plans of using the LV regularly over many years I’d go for the Eriba. If it was for a few years prior to moving on(my choice) freedom for sure. Your circumstances will further dictate your choice, good luck👍🏻
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Spot on. Eriba’s are classy caravans. Freedom is nice but not as well built or robust.
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Definitely an Eriba, although I am a little biased.
As Lutz says, they hold their value very, very well - almost ridiculously so. Automotive Leisure in Bournemouth have a 20 year old Troll 540GT (same as ours) up for £11k, which I suspect was less than £20k when new.
As mentioned on the other thread, we popped over to Denmark to collect ours 4 years ago, having spotted it on Marktplaats. We saved around £3k+ compared to similar age vans being sold in the UK (a 2008 model).
Great little vans that should last a lifetime if looked after.
Good luck and let us know how you get on.
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If you're thinking of a small 2 berth then you may have a small towcar, in which case make sure you check the weights on any potential Eriba. As previously mentioned they are more substantial in the build.
Also worth looking at the Lunar Ariva as this is narrower than the others and also the new Bailey D4, a smart looking van that has a longer European type A frame for bike carrying, although I've not looked at weight limits and MIRO etc. as we are satisfied with our own van at present. Elldis also do a small 2 berth, can't recall it's name at present.
We had 5 very happy years with our Lunar Ariva touring in the UK and Europe and were able to downsize the car to 1.6 Kia Ceed diesel which served its purpose well.
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I think for a few years now they have ceased to make any new Goburs.
I agree they are very good van's if seeking one with their niche features.
Some of the Eriba Touring range have exceptionally high payloads. But, the weights of a particular van need carefully checking, as the available payload changes with the options that were fitted to it. Unlike typical UK van's many were purchased to a factory order with variously selected options.
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Another range worth looking into may be Silver Pop-Tops, or if you can find one, Trigano, or Rapido. All built to the same basic pattern, but Rapido stopped around 2000, which is when ours was built.
We prefer this style of pop-top to Eribas, as they're lighter inside with "upstairs" windows rather than cloth sides, and the headroom goes all the way to the ends and the corners.
It takes all of 30 seconds to lift the pop-top in place, and the advantages of a lighter and very stable box to tow are a great bonus - in our case, 5 metres from nose to tail and jjust 2m high folded down, so it goes under the Autoroute toll height gauge for free
The Triganos & Silvers move more into modern spec than ours, which doesn't boast things like built in heating. Either way they're cheaper than Eribas, which seem to us to have an artificially high "cult" value price tag.
We looked at Freedoms and didn't find them to be in the same league.Good luck!
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Dont know your dimension constraints but Knaus Sport or Travelino?
Small vans that are really well put together and although I have only looked around one I thought it was a really good small van, as did the chap who was showing it to me, but he had just bought it so would like it!
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