Venture Caravans invests in the production of its Redline brand

Plenty of dealers have gone down the route of selling bespoke camper conversions based on VW’s Transporter – easily the fastest-growing sector of the market in recent years. Few have embraced it as wholeheartedly as Venture Caravans.

From its base near Daventry, Northamptonshire, the firm has invested heavily in a manufacturing set-up producing a range of VW- and Ford Transit Custom-based campers under its Redline brand. These are two popular base vehicles and feature in our best van for converting into a camper guide.

Venture Caravans has NCC Approved Motorhome Manufacturer status, is an ISO 9001 certified manufacturer and has been audited for Type Approval through the GB Small Series scheme.

As Venture director Mark Turley explains: “We consider all this essential. Under the NCC scheme, Redline Campers will be manufactured to the same high standards and guidelines issued by the NCC that the major UK motorhome makers adhere to. The scheme includes independent audits and quality control checks. This is often a prerequisite that motor manufacturers require to grant approval to a conversion company.”

The Redline range comprises four models in short- and long-wheelbase configurations – Sport, Sport XS, Sport+ and Trekker (not to be confused with the Swift Trekker range).

The Redline website has a configurator, so you can mix and match all manner of colour schemes.

Take a look at our guide to the best campervan conversion companies UK to find out more about the various converters out there.

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nickharding

Nick’s first caravanning memory is his younger brother falling out of the bunk bed above him. That was over half a century ago. Around a decade later, his first driving experience was taking the family campervan across a field on his uncle’s farm. He’s now well into his fourth decade as a journalist specialising across the whole leisure vehicle sector. In that time, he’s worked for a wide variety of publications, testing literally thousands of vehicles and visiting almost as many different places throughout the UK, Europe and even beyond. These days, he’s never happier than when he’s out reviewing new or pre-owned motorhomes or researching and writing touring articles for Practical Motorhome. Or, failing that, you may well find him pitching near you in his latest campervan, a Volkswagen California (more often than not with his short, suffering partner, Lin, and crazy sprocker spaniel, Bonnie).