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Caravan Salon 2024 The Morelo Palace 85 L measures almost nine meters, can weigh 7.5 tons and can easily cost more than 300,000 euros. How does it travel in this luxury liner? An experienced camper approaches it. It starts with the door. Unlock, open, get in - the Morelo Palace 85 L doesn't make it that easy. Handover of the test vehicle at the factory in Schlüsselfeld near Bamberg: Service advisor Andreas Troll types a six-digit code into the number panel on the body door. "It's the code from the boss," he says and laughs. Then he thinks for a moment. "Maybe we'd rather use a different code." So a new combination of numbers is quickly programmed into the door before we can finally get into the liner. This test is different. It is intended to show whether I - an experienced camper and test editor, but a complete rookie in this vehicle size - can cope with a liner the size of a rolling house. What are the advantages of traveling in a luxury liner? What compromises are necessary - not when it comes to living there, but perhaps on the road? I want to find out. This is one of the reasons why I finally got my C1 driver's license for vehicles with a permissible total weight of up to 7.5 tonnes. There's no question that the Morelo Palace is an impressive sight. At 8.69 metres long, it is one of the smaller models from the Franconian luxury manufacturer, but its 2.40 metres wide and 3.50 metres high quickly make the difference to conventional mobile homes clear. Thanks to the dashboard of the Iveco Daily being moved up and forward, the driver sits close to the windshield and the interior gains around 40 centimetres in length. The company Fahrzeugbau Meier is carrying out this chassis conversion for Morelo.