Camper and Caravan Repairs

Ketterer: A motorhome and horsebox RV combo without peer

Ketterer Spezialfahrzeuge AG – a specialist vehicle manufacturer based near Karlsruhe, Germany - can provide prospective RV buyers with an exclusive and personalized motorhome that will be the envy of your friends and neighbors. Popular with Europe’s professional equestrian and motorsports fraternity, Ketterer’s custom designed horse trucks and recreational vehicles have traveled as far afield as the Middle East, Canada and the United States. The company currently manufactures around sixty vehicles per year and, as you might expect, these rigs don’t come cheap. The basic 240hp Mercedes Benz Atego 1524L horse truck-motorhome combination retails for €188.500 (plus tax) – that’s a $280,000 hit for what has to be the world’s most expensive horsebox (and this is the cheap one). You just got to love those horses.

Established in 1990 by Michael and Ulrike Ketterer in an 800 square metre facility in Karlsbad, Baden-Württemberg in Germany’s picturesque Schwarzwald region, the company began life with just 3 employees but has grown to encompass a design, manufacturing and sales team of 65. It was a lean first few years but the Ketterer’s got their big break in February 1995 when the then German world show jumping champion - Franke Sloothaak – purchased a luxury horse truck from the fledgling RV Company’s “Professional” range of motorhomes. As a consequence, orders for Ketterer’s horse trucks, promotional trucks and race trucks came flooding in and by 2001 Ketterer were able to further enhance their motorhome line – and their customer appeal - by adding a twin 1.20 metre (4-foot) slide out option to their units. In 2010, Ketterer introduced their 10 metre “Continental” RV line - featuring a 7 metre long (1 metre wide) lateral slide out - which promptly won the 2010-2011 Caravanning Design “Innovations for New Mobility” award – and the same year Ketterer opened their first overseas showroom & service Centre in Didcot, Oxfordshire, in England. Situated close to Blenheim Palace (home of the annual 3-day horse trials) and within a stone’s throw of the race courses at Ascot and Newbury, Didcot lies at the epicenter of England’s horse racing and horse training industry and provides Ketterer with a perfect UK based sales platform for their product.