Parbat

The Parbat is our largest model, starting at $170,000. It’s designed for crews that need real room: couples who want space to spread out, families of four, or grandparents traveling with grandchildren.

The 170” wheelbase buys you what the smaller vans can’t offer — a full-height pantry, a genuine interior shower, and lounge seating that doesn’t double as anything else. If your trips are measured in weeks and your crew is more than two, this is the one.

Standard configuration is 2 sit / 2 sleep: a true RV queen Murphy bed and lounge benches built for storage and hangout space rather than belted travel.

Optionally, the Parbat goes to 4 sit / 4 sleep: RRE Global Smartseats replace the benches for belted seating for four, and the rooftop tent adds a second sleeping spot for two. Unlike our 144” models, the Parbat’s roof carries the tent and the air conditioner together — so sleeping four doesn’t cost you cool nights.

Multiple seating options are available, including pull-tested, ergonomic scheel-mann seats as an upgrade and a fold-up-and-away bench.

Yes, and it’s standard on every Parbat, Core or Pro. The interior shower has a stainless steel enclosure with a camper mixer, fed by the 35-gallon fresh tank and Isotemp water heater, with a full-height pantry built into the same cabinet core.

There’s an exterior shower too, for muddy boots and sandy dogs before they come inside.

Every Parbat comes standard with a Wrappon Sunny self-sealing dry-flush toilet housed in a full-height storage cabinet on heavy-duty slides. No black tank, no dump station.

Same two packages as every Highland Vans build: Core runs a 5 kWh EcoFlow system. Pro steps up to 8.4 kWh of Lithionics lithium with a full Victron system and dedicated alternator charging, plus the exterior package (suspension, KO3 tires on Method 701 wheels, Owl Vans gear) and air conditioning.

On the Parbat specifically, a lot of gear other builders reserve for top trims is standard on both packages: premium plumbing, hot water, and the interior shower.

The 8.4 kWh Lithionics upgrade is also available à la carte on a Core build.

Honest answer: it depends on weather, A/C use, and crew size.

Power-wise, the Core’s 5 kWh handles a long weekend of careful use; the Pro’s 8.4 kWh plus the 600W of solar runs about 3–4 days in good sun with normal cooking and modest A/C.

In practice, water is the real limit and power is not: running the engine puts charge back wherever you are parked, and topping up water means finding a fill station. The 35-gallon fresh / 28-gallon grey system lasts two travelers roughly 4–6 days with sensible shower use. Plan on shorter stretches with a family of four aboard.

With the Murphy bed folded up, the garage swallows family-scale loads: bikes, skis and boots for four, camp chairs, crash pads, a dog crate.

The full-height pantry beside the bed keeps food and supplies out of the gear zone, so the garage stays a garage.

It’s the biggest van we build, so be honest with yourself about parking. The 170 still drives like a Sprinter — AWD, car-like manners, huge mirrors.

It needs a long parking space and won’t fit most home garages (plan on 10 ft of clearance). Owners who daily-drive a Highland van usually pick the Aoraki; owners who pick the Parbat plan around the size and don’t look back.

Yes — the Parbat is the only Highland Vans model that fits both. The 170” roof is long enough for the rooftop tent and the low-profile A/C at the same time, so you don’t have to choose between a second sleep spot and cool nights.

On our 144” models it’s one or the other.

The Parbat gives you a 170” chassis, an interior stainless shower with hot water, a full-height pantry, double bench seating (standard on Core), and a tent-plus-A/C roof.

Pick the Aoraki if it’s just two people and you need tight parking. Step up to the Parbat when your crew or your trips have outgrown a 144, or when you want the extra space and the interior shower.

The Kinabalu is our 144” family van with seats for four every day, parks anywhere, great as the household’s only vehicle. The Parbat is the trip van: more floor, the indoor shower, the pantry, and room to live aboard for weeks.

If the van’s main job is school runs with weekend trips, look at the Kinabalu; if the main job is the road, it’s the Parbat.