i don't think i would ever purchase a sprinter camper i'm so picky that i would probably have to build my own. that said i would like to make a few points. the sprinter is a 5 cylinder turbo diesel as far as i know so if you are going to compare it to full size motorhomes you would need to compare it to a diesel. also i bet if you equalized dollar value between what a full westy sold for in 1991 and also considered that this conversion has much more in it and is bigger i think the price wouldn't be such of a shock. i doubt many of the people on this list bought their westies new. sprinter/dodge is selling a lot of these vehicles. so i foresee them staying on the market for a while. that means as they age they might very well become affordable replacement options for vanagons if vw doesn't step up to the plate. i know here in the detroit area that when fedex dumped their last load of ford econolines that they were very affordable. they run sprinters now :). jonathan On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Sharon Mendonca wrote: > Do you realize how nice a used full size motorhome you could get for about half that $63,000 - the savings in purchase price could be used for the gasoline. What's surprising is that these conversion vans don't get much better gas mileage than the full size motorhomes, so what do you gain other than being easier to park and drive? I'll keep our low-cost Westy!! > > Sharon Mendonca > > 88 Westy > > 88 Vanagon > > Barb Cotton <cottonscrafts@YAHOO.COM> wrote: > i ran across this sprinter camper and i have to say that it looks nicer > than those ones with the eclair on top of them :). > > http://www.sportsmobile.com/2_eb-12sr.html > > jonathan > > > Nice price too! The more I see of some of those other camping vans, the more I love my Westy. > > > Barb > 83 Westy > > Never regret. > If it's good, it's wonderful. > If it's bad, it's experience. > Victoria Holt > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. > > > |
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