Onyx launches its new Mesa MAN TGE-based campervan at the NEC

Campervan manufacturer Onyx Vans has launched its new Mesa campervan at the Motorhome & Caravan Show at the NEC this week.

Based on a long wheelbase MAN TGE (which is among the best vans for a camper conversion), the four-berth Onyx Mesa model is the Sussex company’s latest four-berth.

It features a front dinette with two travel seats and an extending clip-on table, a simple but permanent shower room, and a transverse bed at the back raised up to allow more storage underneath.

The kitchen in the Mesa (left) and a wardrobe in it (right) — Inside the Mesa

The side kitchen includes a two-burner induction hob, an 85-litre fridge, a stainless steel sink, and the option of a three-in-one oven.

There’s also a pop-up roof which the company has designed and built itself. Unusually highly pitched, this fits onto the van’s roof rack, which means on a long wheel base it is still possible to include an air conditioning unit behind the roof over the bed at the back. The roof rack can also be sold separately.

The van is also heavily equipped for off-grid campervanning, and so includes a Victron 400Ah lithium battery, and 350W of campervan solar panels.

The Onyx costs from £145,000 for a front-wheel drive version, or from £150,000 for a 4×4 version.

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PeterBaber

Peter Baber is Reviews Editor of Practical Motorhome. He has been reviewing motorhomes for over a decade now. Before that he had a 20-year career in business journalism which saw him edit a wide variety of magazines, and launch a few too, including one that won an award. Although he enjoyed that, he always knew he wanted to write about one of his biggest passions, a passion that he first picked up when his parents took him half way around Australia in a VW campervan when he was eight. Peter reports on all the new models that make it to dealer forecourts each season, giving his judgement online and in magazine reviews. He also writes many travel articles for the magazine, having taken motorhomes twice to France and all over the UK in the past three years. When he is not doing that, he likes to throw the odd pot or two (he is part of a pottery studio near where he lives and has just started selling his wares), bake the odd cake, or get on with finishing his novel.