Nicola Sturgeon resigns as first minister

To all those reporters referring to said vehicle as a 'luxury campervan' (no doubt text repeatedly copied from the original source), IT'S NOT A CAMPERVAN. 

This is a campervan:




This is a Niesmann + Bischoff 'luxury motorhome' (not necessarily the one previously sitting on Mrs Murrells driveway):

I've just been on the website (it's the ismove variant apparently) and the first marketing spiel banner for this van was "Breaking All The Rules".

www.niesmann-bischoff.com/en/ismove/

I can't think that either of them would be daft enough to divert £600,000 and buy a motorhome . 

With her starving the local councils of funding and lack of repairs to Scotlands roads, I would find it very amusing if they broke a spring or got a puncture whilst travelling about in it.
Maybe she invested it in a baby box manufacturer company 😁

I only read it in DT so facts an option extra, but I think it's base 3.5 which ends up 5 with recommended fit out + battery. I notice the Arto model has a storage compartment under the floor to keep a secret cash wine stash though so...
Surprised by my level of interest in it to be honest; probably trauma response from too many childhood holidays in a much less luxurious version! 

that's not normally how it works. On a coachwork build, (and indeed normally an A-Class) the vehicle weight that is talked about is the MGW - mass gross weight that the loaded vehicle must not exceed in its converted form (dictated by the base vehicle, taking into account any upgrades to e.g. suspension that may have been done).  That ties into what people are licensed (or not licensed) to drive. Hence the focus on 3.5t as that is where driving license cut off is. If you are my age, then you have C1 class driving rights grandfathered in, allowing you to drive >3.5 < 7.5t. If you are younger, you won't by default. Hence the focus on 3.5t MGW, as below that means those without C1 can drive it. 

For a MoHo the unladen weight - or the inverse i.e. the spare weight available up to the MGW - is specified. It used to be (no idea whether still is) that allows for a standard specified amount of 'onboard' or laden weight: e.g. water tank full, 1x gas bottle , 2x people at some specified average weight, half grey water tank, other bits and pieces. The frequently little spare capacity that is left between that and the vehicle's MGW is often a surprise to people.  

Just as an example. Our 7m MoHo as originally built had an MGW of 3.5t (fitting the above model). Its unladen weight is of course less than that. And the original base vehicle on which it was based had a lower unladen (and I think possibly MGW) than that still. As it happens, ours had an after market suspension upgrade (prior to our ownership) to take it to 3.9t MGW. That probably is not far off doubling the available free load weight. The good news is that because we both have C1 on our driving license we can still drive it. I think if we didn't, we could probably downgrade its registration to 3.5t  max - even if it is PHYSICALLY capable of going higher. And of course we can also load it up with more tins of beans than would otherwise be the case. And surprisingly the road tax is a bit less than it would be: at >3.5t it is classified as a 'Private HGV', with a lower road tax. On the flip side, if we were to take it to e.g. France (if we could ever get through Dover) we would have to pay extra to get a 'vignette'.