Do you really need an oven?

Travel year round both wild and site camping and use the cooker year round as well, must say a lot more in winter. As somebody said cooking part baked bread when far from a bakery is a fantastic use of the oven so is cooking something in it at night when its freezing cold like it has been this winter. Hot food and warm van. You cannot realy cook outside in the rain snow etc.

My wife and I are pleased that we have had an enforced delay in choosing a motorhome which is a big decision after caravanning for forty years.  We are now seriously considering a Swift Escape 622.  This year there is a dealer special called Spirit, available from a dealer local to us, which we like.  The only factor we don't like is the oven which we would never use.  I do wish that the manufacturers would give us a choice.  A two or three burner hob and no microwave is what we would choose and that would enable more storage.  I don't know if it is realistic to ask the dealer to remove both oven and microwave but I suspect that the cost might outweigh the advantage.  

Has anyone done this conversion?

The trouble with giving Joe Bloggs a choice of options is that you end up where Mercedes are now .... every second hand vehicle you look at is different from the last ... some have this, some have that but very rarely do they have both this & that.

 

Point taken and a valid one at that.  Looking at the photo of the interior once again I can see that it could be argued that the oven is quite useable as storage and is there should we ever choose to use it.  I cannot imagine so doing but ideas undergo change.

If all you want is a three burner hob instead of a full kitchen then your best bet is to buy a continental MH. They seldom have a proper kitchen. That was why my OH vetoed the s/h Carthago that I was quite taken with.

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Oh course you need an oven far more than a microwave IMHO 😉. Nothing stopping you using it in the way that suits you - so long as you don't accidently turn it on 😂

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I know they're made to order .... if you watched James May a year or 2 back when he was at the Mini factory in the Midlands, he showed the assembly card that each car carries that shows colour & interior colour etc, the data card isn't unique to Mercedes. 

IMHO the real reason is to make more money. Try 'building' a car on their website. Set off with a not-so-cheap car & then add the things you'd like and you very quickly add £thousands to the original price. 

My last car, when bought new, had just 2 boxes to tick on the options list .... NOT leather & 3 pedals for those that 'want to be in control' .... everything else was standard.

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