With chassis availability still causing some issues, and seemingly having spread from Fiat to Ford, there has been further reduction of the main Chausson portfolio.
First, though, let’s focus on the most popular models of its range – the Ford-based Titanium Ultimate low-profiles. For 2024, the line-up consists of the 640 (large front lounge, rear garage and XL washroom), 777 (single beds) and 788 (island bed). All three get the 168bhp Ford motor and six-speed automatic gearbox as standard.
Gone are the one-of-a-kind 660 and the flexible family ’van, the 720, but extending the range is a lower-spec version (Etape Line) of the established 650 layout – a 6.39m motorhome with side settee lounge, drop-down bed, and a full-width washroom (plus a garage). For 2024, this entry-level ’van will be based on a Peugeot Boxer with steel wheels, a manual gearbox, cab air-conditioning, cruise control, ESP, Isofix, diesel heating and a panoramic skylight.
Chausson’s ‘S’ range of compact (narrow-bodied) low-profiles dips out of the company’s 2024 range, in the UK at least. We’re told it will be back in 2025.
In the meantime, the ‘X’ – the crossover vehicle that blends motorhome facilities with campervan size, returns after a year out. The X550 also gets a bigger brother for the first time – the X650.
The six-metre (and 2.10m wide) X550 returns to Britain with just minor changes (some new ‘X’ motifs next to the fridge and on the underside of the drop-down bed) – but also a key detail. Watch our video at motorhome.ma/review220 (774,000 people already have) and you’ll see that a major point of contention was the lack of an offside window in the lounge – well, the 2024 version has one.
So does the new X650, which is 6.36m long (the same as an extra-long Fiat panel van). This bigger ‘X’ has the same lounge and drop-down bed, but the washroom moves from the rear to the nearside – behind a tambour door it has a swing-wall to create a decent, curtain-free shower. Opposite that is th
