Carioca

Our first motorhome was a CI Carioca 3. In August 2008 we spontaneously decided to buy a motorhome. As my wife had no experience of camping life at all, we opted for an inexpensive vehicle so that the loss wouldn't be too big if she didn't like it.

We found our motorhome at the Wohnmobilgalerie in Hohenaspe: a Fiat 230 with a CI III body. It had an over-cab bed, a rear bed and a separate shower. A separate shower was very important to us, as we also travel in winter and can hang up wet clothes there without them getting in the way.

Other features:

• Dinette

• Satellite system

• 1 leisure battery with 85 Ah

The vehicle is – or was, when we bought it – nothing special and didn't have much equipment.

Technical data:

• Fiat 230 / 1.9 L

• 82 hp turbo diesel

• Built 1999

• Length 6.00 metres

• Width 2.20 metres

• Height 3.10 metres

• Gross weight: 3.4 t

• Unladen weight: 2.85 t