I have this one, too. It reminded me of the one from classic town with the blue car. I didn’t really like that the car was yellow for this update, since I already had a yellow car from an earlier City or World City set.

But it’s still good fun.

I've thought a few times about picking up a copy of this, but haven't pulled the trigger on it yet. Nice to hear it's getting such good reviews from people who have it.

Ah, yes... this set is how I learned that a camper/travel trailer is called a caravan in some countries.

@watcher21 said:
" @phi13 said:
"Ah, yes... this set is how I learned that a camper/travel trailer is called a caravan in some countries."

A caravan is detachable and has no own engine.
A camper or campervans has both the enigine and sleeping accommodation.
"

I would call the former a travel trailer and the latter a motor home. "Camper" could refer to either, but more often to the former.

Is this the one that had the minifigs that are theorized to be the same people as some similar-looking child minifigs that are in a different set?

Remembert when I was smaller and got this set, I was so amazed by the fact that caravan's side could be opened to reveal interior. Such a small thing, yet seemed so mind-blowing to me back then.

A 4-wide City set? Didn't know those existed.

Edit: after browsing through the City sets, apparently a lot of those exist. I thought City was always 6-wide...

It's so good that Ausini stole as much as possible. You gotta see this:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ausini+25517&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwin7Orosb31AhX4xbsIHY6IA5oQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=ausini+25517&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzoECAAQHjoECAAQGFCEDli8FGCKF2gAcAB4AIABQogByQKSAQE2mAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=ucrnYeerNfiL7_UPjpGO0Ak&bih=1019&biw=1920&client=firefox-b-d
The Ausini minifig doesn't even fit into the car X)

One side swings out which is cool, but I would have included a jeep or SUV and redesigned the front half of the caravan with a kitchen area etc. as the usable rear seating area is no different to the more compact mini-van 7639.

Confession: I've never liked those mudguard pieces. Think they look too chunky.

They’re going to blow out the transmission, pulling a trailer with that go-kart.

@MisterBrickster said:
"Confession: I've never liked those mudguard pieces. Think they look too chunky."

They also leave those awkward gaps behind since the were initially thought to be used with the special 4(!)-wide bracket like the car in this set has them.

A new caravan in periwinkle blue would be great!

i bought this set in Berlin in 2012, the very first time I came in a Lego Store... when i came out from my dark ages!

Dude, now I feel old. Its the first RSOTD (that I've seen) that I actually got for Christmas.

@MisterBrickster:
That’s only because the car is too runty to wear them nicely.

@jkb:
https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3468346
https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3688312
https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=5076065

I haven’t photographed many of them, and these are all over ten years old at this point, but I never had problems filling in around the fenders. 45 inverted slopes are the easy solution, provided your car is big enough to afford you the space. Cheese wedges, mounted sideways or hung upside-down (or on my Good Humor Truck, simply pinned in place on six sides) do wonders no matter how small you want to go with your car. It’s the fender that came after this that I find to cause the most trouble. It’s shallow, with beveled tips, but they don’t line up nicely with the standard parts grid. My 8-wide Holley Shiftwell is the only car I can think of that I built using those fenders, and it was only because these weren’t available in dark-purple at the time.

Wow, I must have missed this one. A very nice set and elegant colour scheme for the caravan! Doesn't look too hard to build even if you don't own the actual set.

@Brickchap said:
"I have this set. Probably the best car and caravan set released in the 21st century in my opinion. The 2014 campervan was alright. Personally I'd like to see another set like this with a regular car and traditional caravan (a tear drop shaped 1950s style caravan would be cool, especially if it came with a vintage car). "

I love the idea of an Airstream-style trailer, and in fact, now I need to MOC one for one of my vintage Broncos to pull....

@JasonBall34 said:
"Is this the one that had the minifigs that are theorized to be the same people as some similar-looking child minifigs that are in a different set?"

You are thinking about 60182, which was discussed in this Brickset article from 2020: https://brickset.com/article/54967/clues-to-the-minifig-s-lifecycle-uncovered-in-city-sets!

@PurpleDave said:
" @MisterBrickster:
That’s only because the car is too runty to wear them nicely.

@jkb:
https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3468346
https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3688312
https://brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=5076065

I haven’t photographed many of them, and these are all over ten years old at this point, but I never had problems filling in around the fenders. 45 inverted slopes are the easy solution, provided your car is big enough to afford you the space. Cheese wedges, mounted sideways or hung upside-down (or on my Good Humor Truck, simply pinned in place on six sides) do wonders no matter how small you want to go with your car. It’s the fender that came after this that I find to cause the most trouble. It’s shallow, with beveled tips, but they don’t line up nicely with the standard parts grid. My 8-wide Holley Shiftwell is the only car I can think of that I built using those fenders, and it was only because these weren’t available in dark-purple at the time."

Sure. The ugly truth is: LEGO designers rarely fill these gaps in release sets. I customize City sets with these fenders myself, usually with 1x1 plates. Depending on the model/wheels used/etc., sometimes they fit, sometimes not. I'm desperately waiting for ant-cheeseslopes to appear =/

This is a pretty good set, but the car 1) lacks doors and 2) doesn't quite look powerful enough to pull the caravan up a hilly road (I love 4-wide cars but 6-wide look more physical). While most Lego City cars lack doors these days, 60182 is more like something you'd see on the roads of rural America.

This was an uncommonly excellent set. The size is just right, it looks excellent, and it has great play features. This is one of the very few cars—especially among 4-wide cars—that seat two people.

@CopperTablet said:
"This is a pretty good set, but the car 1) lacks doors and 2) doesn't quite look powerful enough to pull the caravan up a hilly road (I love 4-wide cars but 6-wide look more physical). While most Lego City cars lack doors these days, 60182 is more like something you'd see on the roads of rural America."

Don't worry, regular sedans or station wagons usually get the job done.

Also own this set, but when 60117 was released I switched the caravans with each other, because I thought then they were more realistic in size. I only had to replace the modified plate with towball in height. Great set nevertheless, and I like to see more of this kind of sets please :).

@ForestMenOfEndor said:
"You are thinking about 60182, which was discussed in this Brickset article from 2020: https://brickset.com/article/54967/clues-to-the-minifig-s-lifecycle-uncovered-in-city-sets!"

Ah, thank you!

@jkb:
I built a MOC of Mater from Pixar’s Cars franchise, which is about the same size as that trailer. It used 378pcs. They have to pay attention to piece count when designing official models. I clearly do not. Yes, I’d love inverted cheese wedges. I don’t anticipate them being released, though, so I devise ways to hang them upside-down instead. I’ve gotten quite good at coming up with new solutions when previously used techniques won’t work. As I said, my Good Humor Truck has them pinned from six directions. Those were used to fill gaps on pontoon fenders, are hanging upside-down, and a pair of 1x4 tiles is all that’s keeping them from falling out.

Modding an official set like this would be difficult. For a MOC, it’s pretty easy. What I started out with was taking a pair of 1x4 tiles and placing them top-to-top. Add a 1x6 plate on top of the upside-down tile. Put 1x1 plates and cheese wedges on the remaining studs of the 1x6 plate. Changing the size and shape of the plate allows this technique to be used in tighter spaces. For the Pizza Planet Truck, getting the lower angle on the body panels right behind the rear fender was a lot trickier, and required a very unconventional use of 2L axles. It’s just a matter of how creative you feel like getting with the parts.