Bailey Endeavour B68: the end-lounge Transit campervan where the pop-top costs 143 kg

The Bailey Endeavour B68 is a campervan with the sofas at the back. You sit facing each other, or facing the view through the rear doors, and at night the bed is made where you sat. That sounds simple. In a van under six metres long it decides what the rest of the floor can do, and if you add the pop-top roof it decides how much you can carry. The B68 costs £75,999 on the road, carries 511 kg as standard, and carries 368 kg once the pop-top goes on. Those three numbers are most of the decision.

What is new for 2027

Practical Motorhome reported on 20 August 2026 that Bailey was adding a new rear-lounge model with four travel seats to its Ford-based Endeavour campervan range for the 2027 season, and that the B63 and B64 are discontinued. That leaves three Endeavours: the B62, the B65 and the new B68. Bailey's show page says new campervan models will be unveiled to the public for the first time at the Motorhome and Caravan Show at the NEC from 13 to 18 October 2026, and the show's listing puts the refreshed Endeavour range on Bailey's stand in Hall 19, stand 25. Bailey's show page lists the B62, B65 and B68. If you are travelling to see one layout in particular, ask whether it is on the stand before you set off.

One small wrinkle: Bailey's range page refers to four models but lists three. The three on the price list are the three that exist for 2027, so work from the individual model pages rather than the headline count.

The B68 layout in plain terms

All three Endeavours share the same shell. Bailey builds them on a Ford Transit panel van with the 2.0-litre 130bhp engine and six-speed manual gearbox as standard. The B68 is 5.980 m long, 2.489 m wide with the mirrors out and 2.064 m with them folded, and 2.824 m tall, rising to 2.945 m with the pop-top. Because it keeps the Transit's own steel body, it is narrower than a coachbuilt motorhome, though at 5.980 m it is longer than a standard UK parking bay.

The B68 puts the kitchen and washroom in the middle of the van and the lounge at the rear. At night the rear lounge makes a transverse double of 1.86 x 1.39 m, lying across the van. The B68 has four designated (belted) travelling seats but sleeps two as standard, or four with the optional pop-top.

The kitchen is where Bailey's own pages disagree with each other. Bailey gives the B68 a Thetford compressor drawer fridge with a 7-litre freezer, given as 82 L in one place and 89 L in another. Either way it is a drawer fridge of around 82 to 89 litres; confirm the figure on the van you order.

The bed, and why 1.86 m matters

The B68's double is 1.86 m long, which is about 6 ft 1 in. If you are 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) you are already longer than the mattress, and a transverse bed in a 2.06 m wide body has nowhere to grow. Shorter couples will not notice. Taller buyers should lie on it at the show, because the other two Endeavours do better here: the B65's raised rear double is 1.97 m long and the B62's single beds are 1.90 m.

B68 against B65 and B62

The three vans are the same length, on the same base vehicle and within a few thousand pounds of each other, so the layout drives the choice, with price, payload and seats following from it.

Endeavour B62: the U-lounge for two

The B62 is £72,999 on the road, has two travel seats and two berths, and its rear U-shaped lounge makes either a double of 1.86 x 1.90 m or two singles of 1.90 x 0.65 m. Its mass in running order is 2,912 kg, giving the biggest payload of the three at 588 kg. There is no pop-top option. It is £3,000 cheaper than the B68 and carries 77 kg more, and it suits a couple who will never need to carry anyone else.

Endeavour B65: the raised bed that stays made

The B65 is also £75,999, with four travel seats, two berths (four with the pop-top), a front dinette and a raised transverse rear double of 1.97 x 1.39 m. Running order is 2,997 kg and payload is 503 kg, or 360 kg with the pop-top. The bed stays made all day and it is the longest in the range, 11 cm longer than the B68's. The cost is that your daytime seating is a dinette at the front rather than a lounge with the rear doors open behind you.

Endeavour B68: the lounge at the back

The B68 is £75,999, four travel seats, running order 2,989 kg, payload 511 kg or 368 kg with the pop-top. It is the one for people who use a campervan as a place to sit. Open the rear doors on a pitch with a view and the whole lounge faces it. The trade is that you make the bed every night, and it is the shortest double of the three.

So the question is simple: do you want to sit at the back (B68), sleep at the back without making a bed (B65), or have the most flexible beds and payload for two people only (B62)?

The pop-top sums, done properly

Bailey's optional extras table lists the pop-top roof, which takes the B68 from two berths to four, as a Bailey factory fit for the B65 and B68 only, at 143 kg and £7,500. Before adding it, understand what the payload figure already contains: the driver is included in the running-order figure. Bailey says optional extras add to the vehicle's weight and will be reflected in the available payload.

Now the arithmetic for a B68 at its 3,500 kg MTPLM:

• Standard van: 3,500 kg minus 2,989 kg running order leaves 511 kg.
• Add the pop-top: 511 kg minus 143 kg leaves 368 kg.
• Fill the four seats: the driver is already counted, so three more people at the EU allowance of 75 kg each is 225 kg. That leaves 143 kg.
• Fill the 100-litre fresh tank for the drive: 100 kg of water leaves 43 kg for food, clothes, bedding, bikes, chairs and the awning.

Forty-three kilograms is a weekend's food and a couple of bags. It is not four people's luggage. Travel with the tank empty and fill up on site, and you have 143 kg, which is workable for a short trip if everyone packs light. Note the other options too. The 165bhp engine with eight-speed automatic gearbox is a Ford factory order at £2,850; check its weight on Bailey's options list, because it comes off the same payload. The Truma 200 W solar panel is £250.

The same B68 without the pop-top, used by two people, is a different vehicle. One passenger takes 75 kg from 511 kg and leaves 436 kg before any options. That is a comfortable margin for a couple with bikes and a full water tank. In other words, the pop-top does not just add two berths; it turns a generous two-person van into a tight four-person one.

Ask the retailer whether a plate upgrade is possible for the Endeavour, and to what figure. Remember that any plate above 3,500 kg takes the van outside category B for anyone who passed their car test on or after 1 January 1997, who would need C1, and moves it into the Private HGV tax class.

Heating, gas and power

Bailey fits a Truma Diesel Combi D4E heating and hot water system and gives it a Grade III EN1646-I classification. Diesel heating draws from the vehicle's own tank, so you do not need gas to stay warm or to have hot water. Do not assume the van is gas-free, though: ask the retailer how the hob is fuelled and what gas bottle provision your build has.

Bailey lists a 150Ah lithium battery as standard. The compressor fridge runs off that battery, which is why the lithium matters for nights off hook-up; the optional 200 W solar panel at £250 is a cheap way to keep it topped up. Bailey lists a 100-litre fresh water tank, and gives the waste tank as 58 litres in one place and 56 litres in another. Treat it as around 56 to 58 litres and ask the retailer which is right.

Driving it: licence, speed and tax

Bailey says the 3,500 kg MTPLM means the van can be driven on a standard category B licence. That is correct: category B covers a motor caravan with a MAM of up to 3,500 kg, and it can tow a trailer of up to 3,500 kg MAM behind it.

Speed limits for motor caravans turn on unladen weight, not plated weight, with the line at 3.05 tonnes. Unladen weight excludes the driver, fuel and water, so it is lower than Bailey's 2,989 kg running-order figure, which means the B68 should sit well under the line and use car limits: 30 mph in built-up areas (20 mph on restricted roads in Wales), 60 mph on single carriageways and 70 mph on dual carriageways and motorways. Check the unladen weight on the V5C or the certificate of conformity to be sure.

At 3,500 kg the B68 is taxed as Private or Light Goods, tax class TC11, which with the 2.0-litre engine (over 1,549 cc) is £375 a year at the 2026 to 2027 rate; check GOV.UK for the live figure. The MOT is class 4 from three years old whatever the weight. At 2.824 m, or 2.945 m with the pop-top, the van stays under the 3 m height at which the cab must display a height notice, though a roof box or aerial can change that. In London the ULEZ applies to a motor caravan at or under 3,500 kg; a new Euro 6 diesel should be compliant, but put the registration into the official checker rather than assume.

Price, warranty and what to confirm

The B68's £75,999 is the recommended retail price as at 1 August 2026 and includes VAT at 20 per cent. A B68 with the pop-top is £83,499; add the automatic and it is £86,349. Magnetic Grey paint is a cost option, according to Bailey's page; ask the retailer for the price.

Bailey, as a Ford Pro Convertor, says buyers get comprehensive warranty packages; ask the retailer for the terms of each before you count on them.

Before you sign, confirm four things:

1. The fridge capacity and waste tank size on your build, since Bailey's own pages give two figures for each.
2. The pop-top bed dimensions. Ask for the figure, as it matters for anyone tall or heavy who will sleep up there.
3. Whether a weight plate upgrade is available, to what figure, and what it does to your licence and tax.
4. The actual weighbridge figure of your van with your options fitted. Type-approval rules allow the real running-order mass to differ from the declared figure by up to 5 per cent, which on 2,989 kg is up to about 149 kg either way.

The bottom line

The B68 earns its place in the range. For two people who want to sit at the back with the doors open and occasionally carry two more, it is the Endeavour to look at, and at 511 kg the standard van carries plenty for a couple. The pop-top is a different proposition. It costs £7,500 and 143 kg, and with four aboard it leaves around 143 kg for everything else before any water goes in. If you need four berths most of the time, weigh that figure against the B65's longer fixed bed, and if you are over 6 ft 1 in, lie on the B68's 1.86 m double before you fall for the view.