Date:         Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:06:11 -0400
Reply-To:     craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: This GoWesty is really starting to annoy me....
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu>
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The sprinter is a really great piece of vehicle. Expensive, but really,
wonderful. We have family friends that have something like a baker's dozen
children, and they chose to buy a massive passanger sprinter with every
option and i am extremely impressed. Its taller than a schoolbus (Overhead
AC UNIT) by it's got the massive windows of a skyscraper, the handling of
reasonable sedan, and with it's diesel engine, they claim to get 30mpg! The
creature comforts are nice as well, and i truely believe a 4wd camper
version of this platform IS a modern equivalent to the vanagon style
campers. Sure beats the Sportsmobile.....

just my 2 cents.

-Craig
'85GL (engine in less boxes, less pieces, but still not in the van)

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:

> The Sprinter has always had that name, whether sold by Dodge or MB.  It
> may even pre-date the merger (that formed Daimler-Chrylser).
>
> There is little or no Chrysler in that vehicle, it is all MB except for
> the badging.
>
> Allan
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL.
>
> On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:01:31 -0600, "John Connolly, Aircooled.Net"
> <john@AIRCOOLED.NET> said:
> > the 2008 Vanagon DOES EXIST imo, its just that VW doesn't make it. I
> know
> > because I'm saving up for one now. Made by Mercedes (but sold under the
> > Dodge badge due to the recent Mercedes/Dodge divorce, alimony was the
> > Sprinter in the USA), a 4x4 version is coming to the USA soon. Even the
> > 2004-2006 version is outstanding.
> >
> > http://www.edmunds.com/dodge/sprinter/2007/consumerreview.html
> >
> > http://www.sportsmobile.com/2_sr_vaninfo07.html
> >
> > http://www.sprinter4x4.com/
> >
> > John
> > Aircooled.Net Inc.
> >
>