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Motor Home Clubs: A Great Way To Take A Motorhome Holiday
Sunday, October 9th, 2011
:: What do you know about motor home clubbing? Have you just bought a new motor home, or are considering buying one? Perhaps you have been on a rented campervan holiday and made the decision to buy your own for the next trip? Whichever stage of the motorhome selection and purchase process you are at, you’ve got a sweet motor home treat to look forward to: Motor Home Clubbing.
If you haven’t heard of a motor home club in the past, but you’re interested in taking yourself and your new vehicle on a motor home club trip in the future, start your journey here. Dismiss the image of campers bopping to a disco beat. Motor home clubs are for the fun loving motorhome owner with a little life experience tucked under their belt!
Such clubs originated with small groups of enthusiastic motor home owners who established the informal clubs partly for financial purposes and partly for the social benefits. Financially, a group of motor home owners were able to reduce their individual overnighting camp fees by booking together and receiving a group discount subsequently shared between the club members. Socially, the clubs enabled the owners able to interact with other like minded motor home enthusiasts, sharing camper DIY tips and ideas, but they had an instant group of equally equipped friends with whom to explore the countryside. Should a vehicle run into a spot of bother on the road, travelling with a motorhome club ensured plenty of enthusiastic hands on deck to help solve the problem.
Today, motor home clubs have grown from informal groups of enthusiasts to become registered camping clubs and social groups. There are now even companies that offer planned and booked motor home travel itineraries. These clubs can be found all over Europe, where a stately procession of motor homes undulating up and around narrow and twisted roads is quite a sight for the Sunday driver. There are clubs that travel the long straight roads of the Australian Outback and the USA; like carriage after carriage on a long motorhome ‘train’. In fact there are numerous motor home clubs on every continent and in every country including New Zealand .
New Zealand motor home clubs are established communities and membership to any NZ motorhome club can prove of great advantage to the vehicle owner. These days, the modern motor home club issues a monthly newsletter and not only organises multi day group trips and socials but also provides discounted overnight bookings for their members whether travelling in the club group or not. Indeed, the modern motor home club also offers a member specialised motorhome and motorhome travel insurance.
New Zealand motor home clubs aim to promote and encourage safe motor home driving and sustainable domestic travel. Motor home trips are a delightful way to rediscover the nostalgic holiday hot spots of your youth and to explore all the new and exciting places in between. An affordable way to travel, motor homes not only provide one with a mode of transport, but also on the spot accommodation and even better, if you join a motor home club..on the spot and like minded motor home friends!
Source: http://www.submityourarticle.com/articles/Sara-Leadbetter-7378/Motorhome-178453.php
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2011 Sedans – Sedan Comparison Tests from CARandDRIVER.com
Sunday, July 31st, 2011
Startup Sedans: Five perfectly respectable rides for up-and-comers establish a new standard for compact sedans…
You’ve Arrived! These long luxury sedans take the sting out of gout…
Dough Boys: Hyundai faithfully clones Lexus’s iconic LS and offers it at a steep discount. Should the Japanese fret? Should the Koreans celebrate?..
What does it cost to feign affluence? We drive three near-rich sports sedans to find out…
Monopoly Money: We live the life of a monopoly man in $500,000 of England’s finest…
The Color of Real Money: Maximum speed meets maximum elegance. With seating for four, no waiting…
War Rooms: The mid-size sports sedan battle rages on…
Fore for Four: Cruising Alabama’s Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail in a quartet of $40,000 sedans…
Practically Chic: Does style really matter in these mid-size schleppers armed with just four cylinders and slushboxes?..
Stimulus Packages: The startling new Porsche sedan goes toe-to-toe with a glamourous Italian and a businesslike German…
Rabids at Rest: A rare moment of inactivity finds the latest from Cadillac, Jaguar, and Mercedes-Benz rubbing fender wells to determine supremacy among 500-plus-hp luxury sedans. ..
Audi ices a mighty 3 by shedding price, and even power: The bash takes place in a 50-grand neighborhood, with a couple of Germans getting all cross-eyed on force-fed stimulants…
Conspicuous consumption lite: Keeping the revs up and the ostentation down…
Executive sweets: We compare two high-end sedans that just might fly below the corporate austerity radar…
How about 700 miles on a tankful? We test four hybrid family haulers that eke more miles from every gallon…
Having trouble finding driving thrills at a reasonable price? Slip into one of these seven hot compacts…
Pocketbook Rockets: Before the stickup artists in your local oil cartel meet again, you might want to consider these two worthy compact sports sedans…
Who Rules the Sound Roost?..
A Double Dip of That Old-Time Religion: Testifyin’ in a holy-roller showdown at the church of the big-inch V-8…
Little Cars 6.1: When it comes to bite-size four-door sedans, some automakers specialize in sport, others bet on comfort, a few go for cheap…
Fast Freighters: Audi’s schnellwagen meets Olaf the Conqueror…
Little Feet: Eight ways to shrink your carbon footprint: looking for the 35-mpg car…
Sedans That Sizzle: Can a hotted-up izzy avoid being fried by the bavarian freight train?..
Ennui and Upward!: A fitful search in the New York woods for passion and personality at a price of about 30 grand…
The Frugalympics: New-tech hybrids go up against old-favorite methods in the quest for the best fuel economy. Dr. Diesel gets another chance. So does a four-door hair shirt…
The Buzzard-and-Baloney Brigade: We compare seven of America’s most popular family sedans, searching for value and verve…
Great For 38: It’s off to grandmother’s house in Ojai to see if anyone can put a big scare into the 3-series…
Gluttons for Punishment: Three of the best cars on God’s Earth run hard in the German countryside, without complaint. And first shall be last, as prophesied…
Winds of Change: The Infiniti G35 attempts to knock BMW off the top of the size-medium sports-sedan hill…
Bullet Sedans Reloaded: High-caliber ballistics for the spirit. From Germany, with liebe…
Familial Four-doors: Five new faces try to knock the kanmuri off the Accord…
Chauffeur Showdown: Are sporty driving characteristics and long-wheelbase luxury mutually exclusive? We find out…
Sensible Shoes: Somewhere south of 20 grand there’s a sweet spot of cheap miles and wide smiles. Are we there yet?..
Faster Horses: Four upscale sedans to ward off old-guy blues…
Wretched Excess Times Two: One costs more than $100,000. The other is three times as expensive. Can the new S-class rival the world’s ultimate status symbol?..
Everyday Heroes: When one car has to do it all…
Bahn Burners, Episode 39: A Detroit Yankee challenges the lords of the autobahn. (Under 450 horsepower need not apply.)..
Mid-Size Four-Door Sedans: Two all-new sedans face off against the enduring benchmarks of the class…
$35,000 Sports Sedans: You say it’s 110 in the shade? Perfect weather for a hot date with eight smoking sedans…
$30,000 Family Sedans: Downsizing was so ’70s. Now, three decades later, we’re finally back to roomy four-doors…
Spoilsport Sedans: The latest generation of mid-size luxury sports sedans will spoil you as never before…
Bad-Boy Sedans: The rematch…
Executive Adrenalators: Audi’s middleweight champ faces a fresh set of contenders…
Sustainable Sports Sedans: They blur fence posts—not the numbers on the gas pump…
Stateside Eights: Chrysler’s new V-8 bomb catches the rest of the Detroit gang snoozing…
Executive Trio, Con Brio: A summit of European left-lane huggers convenes under the Tuscan sun…
Manual Dexterity: Among near-luxury sports sedans with stick shifts, surely something is better than a BMW. Or is it?..
$70,000 Luxury Sedans: We test six sedans for those who can plunk down $100,000 and say, ‘Keep the change.’..
The Power of Twelve: We succumb to dodecaphilia…
New-Wave Slingshots: Welcome, America, to the new world of performance cars…
The Heavyweights: Deep-Pocket Rockets: Luxury on fast-forward. No, wait — make that faster forward…
The Featherweights: Serial Thrillers: An interview with four fireballs that tip their hats to the lower tax brackets…
The Middleweights: Compact Adrenaline-Delivery Systems: Feeling tired? Achy? Out of sorts? According to recent studies, you may be doing time in the wrong car…
The Magnificent Not-Quites: We round up 335 grand worth of the most enviable semi-luxury four-doors and fall head over heels in like…
Splashing in the Mainstream: If a mid-size family sedan is what you want, the market is flooded with ‘em…
Double-Dip Dreamboats: If the economy does a stutter step, take heart: Here’s a bunch of $16,000 four-doors eager to show what they can do…
Waiting for a Bimmer Beater: Yet again we return to the near-luxury sports sedans, looking for a player to topple BMW…
36 on the Floor: A 1300-mile run to, through, and from the winding woods of West Virginia proves there’s nothing as fun as a manual gearbox hooked up to a whupp-ass sports sedan…
Concealed Carry:Now that SUVs and minivans are both outr, it’s time to reconsider the family four-door…
Budget Banditos: Proof that four doors, a 20-grand price, and fun are not incompatible concepts. And that the race does not always go to the swift…
Two Against One: In what sounds like a comparison test for suckers, we put two $40,000 German sharks up against a $25,000 novice from Subaru. Surprises to follow…
Dundee and Goliath: A dark knight from Down Under rattles the BMW M5, and you’ll never guess who builds it…
Lucky Seven: Rolling the dice among upmarket sports sedans…
Blood Warmers: Six sports sedans that are guaranteed to dial up your thermostat…
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