New Bailey Ascent 64-2 2027 motorhome for sale

A compact motorhome that doesn’t live like one

Most couples looking at a six-and-a-half metre motorhome accept a trade-off going in. You get something you can park, manoeuvre down a single-track road and take on a ferry without wincing, and in return you give up living space. The seating becomes the bed. The table gets stowed. Every evening ends the same way, clearing the surfaces and rebuilding the furniture.

The Ascent 64-2 is Bailey’s answer to that, and it’s a genuinely new model rather than a carried-over layout. The entire rear of the vehicle is given over to a dedicated U-shaped lounge, and it stays a lounge.

The rear lounge and drop-down bed

The U-shape is the most sociable seating arrangement there is. Two people can sit facing each other with legs stretched out, or one of you can lie along a settee with a book while the other cooks. Bring a couple of friends back to the pitch for a drink and there’s somewhere for everyone to sit without anyone perching.

Above it sits an electrically operated drop-down double bed. At the touch of a button it descends into place, fully made up if you leave the bedding on it, and in the morning it retracts back into the roof and your lounge is exactly as you left it. No cushion Tetris, no lifting a table onto its supports in the dark, no wondering where the infill panel went.

For a couple touring for a fortnight, this is the difference between enjoying the space and managing it.

Storage: the full-width garage

Beneath the rear lounge runs a full-width garage with double-door access from both sides of the vehicle, so whatever’s at the back is reachable, and you can load from whichever side you happen to be parked on.

It’s finished properly rather than left as bare board. Carpeted sidewalls, durable vinyl flooring, a Truma blown-air heating outlet to keep damp kit from staying damp, an internal 12v strip light so you’re not searching by torchlight, and both 230v and 12v power sockets for charging e-bike batteries or running a cool box. Up to four floor-mounted lashing rings stop heavy items shifting on the move, and new bungee storage pockets hold the smaller things that otherwise roll around.

Kitchen and washroom

The central kitchen is more comprehensively equipped than the footprint suggests, including a Thetford compressor tower fridge. Compressor refrigeration is worth understanding if you’re coming from an older van: it runs efficiently from the leisure battery, doesn’t care whether the vehicle is level, and holds temperature far better in hot weather than the absorption fridges many motorhomes still use.

The washroom is a combination unit, designed around how the space is actually used rather than simply fitted in wherever it would go.

Base vehicle and licence

The 64-2 is built on a Ford cab and skeletal chassis with Bailey’s Alu-Tech bodyshell, and carries the same fully specified Transit cab as the Adamo range: a 2.0 litre 165bhp engine with 8-speed automatic gearbox, air conditioning, cruise control, electric windows, automatic wipers and headlights, daytime running lights and an electronic parking brake. The infotainment system runs a 12-inch touchscreen HD colour display with DAB radio, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, Bluetooth and USB, and there’s a Ford rear-view reversing camera.

With an MTPLM of 3,500kg it can be driven on a standard Category B licence, no C1 entitlement required. If you passed your test after January 1997, this is a motorhome you can legally drive.

Inside

The Ascent interior is new throughout: Natural Oak furniture finishes, an Onyx worktop laminate, and floating curved overhead lockers with an integral 12v mood lighting track running through them. Wall coverings are fully upholstered, fixtures and fittings are premium quality in a matt black finish, and the flooring pairs Oatmeal split-section loose-fit drop-in carpets with a Dark Oak durable vinyl underneath, so you can lift the carpets out entirely when you come back muddy. Standard Dune soft furnishings come with two scatter cushions.

Power and heating have both been upgraded for the range: a 150Ah lithium battery for off-grid performance, and the Truma Combi Neo 6E system delivering fast, efficient room heating with strong hot water performance.

Who it suits

Couples who tour regularly and want the smallest vehicle that still gives them a proper sitting room. Anyone who’s found longer motorhomes intimidating on country roads or impossible to store at home. And anyone who has previously owned a van where the bed and the seating were the same furniture, and has decided never again.

Key features

• 2 berth, 2 travel seats, 6.5m bodyshell


• Dedicated rear U-shaped lounge that stays made up


• Electrically operated drop-down double bed above the lounge


• Full-width rear garage with double-door access from both sides


• Lined garage with heating outlet, 12v light, 230v and 12v sockets, lashing rings and bungee pockets


• Central kitchen with Thetford compressor tower fridge


• Combination washroom


• 3,500kg MTPLM — Category B licence


• Ford 2.0 litre 165bhp with 8-speed automatic gearbox


• 150Ah lithium battery


• Truma Combi Neo 6E heating and hot water


• Natural Oak furniture, Onyx worktop, Dune soft furnishings