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Avida truly is one of Australia’ s manufacturing success stories. Six decades ago, the company began under the name Freeway. The company’ s first product was a slide-on camper, a style of RV that’ s still popular today. As the decades rolled along, Avida built virtually all forms of motorhomes, from small commercial campervan fitouts to huge coach conversions and everything in between.

In 2013, the company turned its hand towards building caravans, rounding out its stable of RV products.

The Birdsville is one of Avida’ s long-standing models. It’ s a bit of a classic in the Avida line-up, and it’ s been periodically updated to keep it modern and fresh over the years. I received word that there was a Birdsville LX going unused at Robert’ s RV World, the Melbourne Avida dealership, and I was soon in the driver’ s cab of this Fiat Ducato-based beauty tooling along the freeway at 100km / h wondering how I got so lucky to have this job …

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