Auto Express Product Honours 2008

The Roof Box Company recently had the pleasure of picking up the Auto Express Product Honours 2008 award for Best Roof Box, the Kamei Corvara 390K DuoLift Silver, at an awards ceremony in Birmingham.

Roof Box Company Director, Martin Gray collected the award on behalf of Kamei.


The Corvara 390K narrowly won the coveted 'Best Buy' title in February (see news, 6 February) from it's stablemate, the Delphin 380. Auto Express said "This is close to being the perfect roofbox. It’s well made from thick plastic and all lock clips and clamps are metal – which improves durability and security. Kamei includes a six-year guarantee, and maximum load weight is an impressive 75kg. Both sides open, and the central locking system is great – turning the lock frees all three catches, but they can latch independently, too."


It’s also noteworthy that the Auto Express testers managed to fit more of their luggage into this 390 litre box than into boxes as big as 440 litres.  How come?  It’s down to KAMEI’s low profile quick fitting box to bar fittings which maximise the available space in the box, and also the shape of the box which cleverly combines usability with great looks – KAMEI has a 55 year heritage in car styling and vehicle aerodynamics, and makes use of the VW wind tunnel facilities at Wolfsburg as required.

The Corvara series also won Germany’s ADAC roof box test which involved high speed manoeuvring and braking as well as a 30km/h City Crash test. 


The KAMEI Corvara 390K is available in silver, metallic black and ‘titanium metallic’, a deep silver-grey.  There are 310 litre and 475 litre boxes in the same family, and all the boxes are available with right hand side opening only (silver, metallic black and titanium metallic) if you don’t want to pay the premium for the ‘DuoLift’ dual-side opening system.

To find out more about Kamei boxes and other roof boxes please click here.


To see the full list of winners, see the Auto Express Product Honours issue, which is available today (7 May). Alternatively visit the website at www.autoexpress.co.uk