Every unit below passed through our hands before it was listed. We photograph the bed arrangement, the washroom, the kitchen block and the garage as they are on the day, not after a valet. If a fridge door sticks or a solar panel was replaced, that shows up in the gallery and in the notes.
Coachbuilt, 7.4 m
Rear island bed over a full-width garage. We shot the kitchen block first because that is where most buyers start asking questions.
Semi-integrated, 6.4 m
Code B licence, 3 500 kg GVM. The French bed and wet washroom were shot at dusk after a two-week trip through the Karoo.
4x4 bush camper
Pop-top roof, 265 mm clearance, 140 L long-range tank. Photographed on a farm track north of Ceres, not on a showroom floor.
Latitude Motorhomes started the way most useful things do: with a shortage. Buyers kept arriving at the Kuils River yard asking the same questions about body length, tare, GVM and whether a rig would survive a gravel road into a park. Nobody had those numbers in one place, so we began writing them down.
Coachbuilts and semi-integrated units came first, because that is what most families were asking about. Each entry listed wheelbase, fuel tank size, fresh and grey water, fridge litres and the licence code needed to drive it. It was slower than a photo gallery, and far more useful.
Then the 4x4 bush campers and panel van conversions joined the catalogue. Ground clearance, long-range tanks and dual battery setups became standard fields. A buyer heading to Botswana or the Kgalagadi needs different numbers than someone touring the Garden Route, and the listings had to say so.
As the range widened, browsing became the problem. Berths, transmission, engine size and licence code turned into filters, so a buyer with a code B licence stops scrolling past 4 500 kg chassis they cannot legally drive. Trade-ins and rental fleet units moved to their own section, since they answer a different question.
Many buyers travel from Gauteng, Namibia or further before they see a vehicle in person. So we started filming walkarounds: bed arrangement, washroom, kitchen block, tow bar rating, the lot. Book a viewing slot at the yard, or ask for the video first and save the drive.
The catalogue keeps changing as new models arrive and older units move on. What has not changed is the habit of writing the specs down plainly, so a decision about a motorhome is made on measurements rather than atmosphere.
The catalogue did not start as a catalogue. It started as a workshop notebook of tare weights, wheelbase measurements and water tank sizes, kept because buyers kept asking the same questions twice.
2016
A 7.4 m rear-island-bed unit arrived from a trade-in and stayed for eleven weeks. Every measurement taken off it, from the 210 mm clearance to the 2 000 kg tow bar rating, went into the notebook that later became the listing format.
2018
Two builders brought in panel van conversions with wet washrooms and 90 L fridges. They were smaller than the coachbuilts and harder to photograph, so the gallery shots moved to the bed arrangement, kitchen block and washroom instead of the exterior.
2020
Off-road expedition builds with pop-top roofs, dual battery systems and long-range tanks changed who walked in. The first question stopped being about berths and became about licence code, so C1 and code B limits were added to every listing.
2022
Buyers travelling from Gauteng and Namibia could not always reach the yard, so walkaround videos became standard for anything over 6 m. Trade-ins and rental fleet units were split into their own section once the main floor filled up.
Today
Ground clearance, fuel tank capacity, solar setup and grey water figures now sit next to the sleeping configuration on every page. The yard still runs on the same habit: measure the unit, write it down, and let the buyer decide whether it suits the road they have in mind.
We started Latitude because shopping for a motorhome in Southern Africa usually means guessing. A listing says "sleeps four" and nothing about the wheelbase, the licence code, or whether the thing will scrape its belly on a Namibian gravel road. So we built the catalogue around the numbers that actually decide a purchase, and around the people who have to live with those numbers afterwards.
Every listing carries tare and GVM, body length, wheelbase, fuel tank size, water and solar setup, tow bar rating and ground clearance. If a figure is missing, we chase the owner or the build sheet until it is not.
A rear island bed with a garage suits a family doing park roads. A 6.4 m semi-integrated on a code B licence suits two people who want to keep the car they already drive. We say which is which instead of letting you find out at the campsite.
Bed arrangement, washroom, kitchen block, fridge and gas fittings, photographed as they stand. No wide-angle trickery that makes a 1.9 m washroom look like a hotel bathroom.
Berths, transmission, licence code, engine size and price band. Useful when you have already decided you are not upgrading your licence, or that a 4x4 bush camper is the only thing that will survive your route.
Book a slot at the yard, or ask for a video walkaround if you are driving in from Gauteng or flying down from Windhoek. We film the underside, the roof, the gas locker and the water tanks, not just the shiny side.
Ex-rental units and trade-ins sit in their own section, with the wear and service history stated plainly. Different buyer, different expectations, and we would rather not blur the two.
If you want the longer version of how we work, the solutions overview walks through the catalogue structure, and the contact page has the yard address and viewing times.