Hello Garry
We bought a Cub offroad camper in 2004. New it cost us $17000 and so far we
have taken it through the Territory across the Roper Bar road, up into the
Gulf, Kowanyama, Coen, through Lakefield, back of Laura, Mitchell River
area,etc etc etc and LOVE it. It tows well, sets up in under 10minutes if
you want the annexe on it, otherwise it is about 2mins.  It is the
Supermatic Escape model and there are just a couple of things you need to be
aware of with them. Hubby is 5ft 10 and I am 5ft 8 and the bed is great for
us but if he was over 6foot the bed would be too short as it is across the
trailer not length ways. The foam mattress was a bit on the hard side so we
put a padded "thing" on the top and now this bed is made in heavan.  When we
go to Cairns for a night out we actually take it and set it up in the van
park as it has electricity sockets for the hot weather etc. It is  very very
spacey inside - storage under the bed is as big as the bed. On the top floor
there are 2 fitted boxes which allows you to load extra gear in. There is
room on the bottom floor when opened to have table and chairs in the
wet/cold weather. We loook at folks in their $40000+ campers and most of
them are just a bed on wheels with not a great deal of storage space.
The other reason we settled on a Cub was the weight factor. Most campers are
a tonne empty, ours is 650kgs. We have altered the kitchen as I just wanted
a better kitchen. We also got the annexe but not a front wall as with only 2
of us it is way big enough. I have taken this bush by myself and have no
problems winding it up and down, attaching the towhitch, towing or backing.
We did a weekend trip with 2 other adults, they slept "downstairs" and us
upstairs and it was not a problem. The nightcap may have helped in that
department because there was some snoring going on.
I would be a little careful if you buy it from the Brisbane dealer. He did a
couple of things which really peed us off. One of them was when we arrived
to pick up the camper he said "oh great you have your own hitch". Stupid us
didnt think to take off our Treg Hitch before going there so in actual fact
we didnt get the hitch with the Treg. We carried on about it, got home and
rang him and he just didnt want to know about it so I threatened him with
Cub Sydney and straight away he got our hitch and sent it to us! Other
slightly sleazy thing he did was he added a toolbox to the front and then
wanted payment for it, it ended up an extra $100 which we gave him cash
for - stupud us again! The same box was in overflow for about $30! #@%#@%$
Then to top it all off we had decided not to get the outside plug for the
electricity as Hubby is an electrician and could do it cheaper but it came
with the power ready to plug in.. When he tried to hit us for that we told
him "nope, take it out and give us one without the hole in the side of it
from where the plug was mounted. "LOL we got that for nothing. But we did
think he was a bit on the sleaze side with that sort of thing.
Only other thing which really pees us off is the tap - it seems that it is a
common problem with that sort of pump tap. We have had to replace it twice
and both times the shops have told us that they are not a good design and
even if you pay for a dear one they stuff up. At present we are sourcing a
better tap set up. The other thing we did do was put 2 lengths of steel down
into the front stone guard so that we can just hang the front window from it
so that you have shade and protection in the rain.
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2178829990063293615IKrRPQ  are some
pics of our camper.
Kathy

Take a look at these,

http://www.exploroz.com/Trader/Campers_Trailers.asp?Type=For%20Sale&id=4160

http://www.challengecampers.com.au/

http://www.kangacampertrailers.com.au/

Hi Garry,
we spent a week in Adelaide looking at camper trailers this time last year.
We were looking for a hard floor unit and the cub spacematic seemed like the
best of the lot but priced at $21K it was a bit much considering it didn't
give us much more space and comfort than our 30 year old Holiday Equipment
Corvette camper trailer.  One other problem we had to consider was the
weight of the new units.  Our camper is 400kg fully loaded.  We would have
to replace the 4Runner 2.4D so we could tow the 900kg + units with tinny or
canoes on the roof.  Of the camper trailers we saw the best value and ease
of setting up we thought was the Heaslip see
http://www.heaslipcampers.com.au/page.asp?parentid=3&parent2id=12  Also
Coromal have some good stuff as well see
http://www.coromal.com.au/products.asp    Similar to the Jayco in some ways
I think.

We will follow this thread with interest as we are still looking and can't
make up our minds which way to go.

Cheers
Trev