RV REVIEW
As 2025 wound to a close, I found myself hauling a brand new caravan along Victoria’ s Monash Freeway, barreling east towards Metung, a breathtaking township on the Gippsland Lakes. The van was the prototype AC16C Gold Class. I’ d been asked to take part in the filming of TV travel show My Road to Adventure, and the plan was to highlight this van, along with the new LC18F family Gold Class in the Luxe Class range, in some of the most beautiful scenery this state has to offer.
While the AC16C was indeed a prototype, it was virtually production-ready, with only a few small tweaks to the layout for production models.
Gold Class is the new brand of Market Direct Group, the company responsible for the MDC line of campers and caravans with which you’ re probably familiar. These vans are built in China and finished off locally, as we’ ve pointed out before.
The Gold Class brand was launched in mid 2025, with a 19- footer in both the offroad Adventure Class range and the Luxe Class range of touring vans, both of which we featured within our pages. But the 16ft AC16C offroader I had in Metung ticked a lot of my personal boxes, and I just had to show it to you.
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