RV REVIEW
There’ s a lot of equipment on the Mawson – fitting, considering it’ s a limited edition van intended to celebrate Hilltop’ s 10th anniversary. First, the van rides on a 6in X-Guard-coated chassis with Cruisemaster ATX airbag suspension. Hilltop also fitted Cruisemaster’ s Body Control System, a sophisticated system that levels the van east-west as well north-south via its‘ Horizon Levelling’ feature. Basically, the user interface tells you how much to adjust the jockey wheel to achieve a perfect level. It’ s difficult to do justice to the Cruisemaster BCS system here and I recommend you look further into what it can do, but suffice to say it’ s an intelligent, app-driven way to achieve the perfect ride height, the perfect level at camp, it allows you to tap into the onboard compressor to inflate the tow vehicle’ s tyres, and much more.
On the A-frame, you’ ll find a powder-coated aluminium storage box with a slide-out tray to suit a portable fridge on the nearside. Hilltop has included an Anderson plug here too – great! Now, this storage box is also intended to house gas cylinders, but here’ s the thing: no gas is plumbed through to the body of the van. It is intended solely to power a gasfired barbecue, with a gas bayonet fitted to the offside.
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