Methodology · 6 min read

About these figures

Every figure on CampSpec carries its source and the date it was read. This page records where the figures come from, what they measure, and what is done when a figure is missing.

Published 13 Aug 2026 · Updated as sources change · CampSpec industry desk

Sources

Caravan Industry Association of Australia

State of the Industry Report, June 2026. Production, import and fleet figures. Industry-reported and revised.

BITRE · Register of Approved Vehicles

Make-level and tare-band RAV entry counts, issues Nov 2023 to Jun 2026. RAV entries record vehicles approved for road use — provision to market, not retail sales.

vehiclerecalls.gov.au and productsafety.gov.au

Official recall notices, linked to the notice as published. Monitored daily.

ASIC published notices

Official insolvency and external-administration notices, linked to the record. Monitored daily.

Manufacturer documentation

Model specifications are taken from published manufacturer material and dated when read.

Public listings

Google ratings and review counts while a business is listed as operational; YouTube subscriber, video and last-upload counts; published owner reviews.

What RAV entries measure

The Register of Approved Vehicles records vehicles approved for use on Australian roads. An entry is a provision-to-market signal: it is made when a vehicle enters the register, not when it is sold at retail. CampSpec therefore writes "RAV entries" and "market activity", never "sales" or "market share". Make-level counts are brand-level, not model-level, and tare-band counts are market-level, not brand-by-weight.

Where a CampSpec brand cannot yet be matched to a make on the register, the brand is shown as awaiting match. Nothing is estimated in its place.

Missing figures

A missing figure is stated, not papered over. Five states cover every value on the site:

The value itself

The figure is published, with its source and date.

Not published

The manufacturer has not stated the figure.

In verification

CampSpec holds a figure but has not yet checked it against the manufacturer’s documentation.

Awaiting match

No source record has been matched to the brand yet. Nothing is estimated in its place.

None recorded

The source was checked and holds nothing. That is a finding, not a gap.

Tow vehicle figures

Kerb mass, GVM, GCM, braked and unbraked towing capacity and maximum ball load are taken per variant from the vehicle manufacturer's own published Australian specifications. Where a manufacturer does not publish a figure for a variant it is shown as not published, and nothing is estimated in its place. Payload and the braked rating that survives at GVM are marked as derived: they are arithmetic on the published masses, not manufacturer figures. Figures for discontinued models and superseded generations come from the manufacturer's own documents as archived on the Internet Archive, which is where those specifications now live.

Dates

Every activity fact carries an as-at date, written absolutely — "as at 12 Aug 2026", never "2 days ago". Periods are named in full: "2025 calendar year". Derived values, such as payload, are marked as derived and never presented as manufacturer figures.

What is published and what is not

Public pages carry neutral or positive verifiable facts. The one class of negative entry is a public-record-backed event — an official recall or insolvency notice — published as a dated, neutrally worded entry with the source document linked. Inferences never appear: no health scores, no watchlists, no status markers, no trend commentary. Conclusions are left to the reader.

Coverage

CampSpec currently records 189 brands, 1,555 models and 616 dealers. Activity signals are collected daily.

Caravan Industry Association of Australia, State of the Industry, June 2026 · BITRE RAV data, issues to Jun 2026 · as at 16 Aug 2026

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