The following was reported by New Atlas.
Bürstner wowed the RV world last year when it introduced its Signature series, one of 2025’s most impressive small motorhome launches. The family of compact motorhomes packs the spacious, luxurious feel of larger RVs thanks to transforming spaces that pull double duty. Bürstner grows the series this year with a larger, more luxurious Signature line based on the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. The all-new Signature SMT maintains the smart tricks and spacious design for which the series is known but adds a more desirable chassis below, elevating it ever higher.
We truly yearn for a world in which Stellantis completely revamps the styling of the Fiat Ducato (and cross-badge siblings like the Ram Promaster) into something vaguely attractive. It doesn’t have to reimagine the entire van, just refresh that front-end with a design that isn’t so inexplicably droopy and weak.
Until then, though, replacing a Ducato chassis with something – anything – is a near-guaranteed way to give a motorhome a better-looking front-end. The Ducato still offers space advantages for factory-body camper vans, but if you’re building your own fiberglass motorhome like Bürstner is for the Signature, you have little to lose and lots to gain. The Signature’s styling immediately moves upmarket just by swapping out the Ducato’s dour look for the more confident Sprinter face. Yes, that’s just, like, our opinion, man, but it’s not exactly an unpopular one.
Happily, Bürstner doesn’t mess with a good thing when it comes to the Signature SMT layout. Here, it still offers the same compelling transformable front lounge option. This design serves as a typical front-facing two-seat/two-belt bench during commutes but swivels and converts into a deluxe dining lounge at camp, incorporating the swivel cab seats and the bench across the aisle.
That lounge makes way for an available 193 x 130-cm (76 x 51-in) double bed at night, not by converting but by simply remaining still below the lowering bed. When lifted away, that bed blends in nearly invisibly with the headliner, moving up and down in conjunction with the left- and right-side overhead cabinets.
The second of the two transforming spaces is found just a few steps back on the driver’s side. The standard hybrid bathroom combines the space-saving construction of a wet bath with the roomier, more comfortable showering experience of a dry bath using a slick solution: a sliding front wall that pulls backward to store away the sink and toilet for a clean, open shower space. This way, you’re not tripping on the toilet or bumping into the sink while showering, enjoying a dedicated space similar to home.
The bathroom can also be optioned with a Clesana C1 waterless dry-wrapping toilet or electric-sliding tank toilet in place of the standard cassette toilet.
