While leafing through the current issue of Road&Track (or was it Card &Driver?) picture of a vehicle transporter loaded with Mercedes Benz Vito (?) mini-vans struck my eye. Allegedly the guy that snapped the picture in May of this year had chased the transporter over the LA freeways to its mysterious destination in Colton California... This raises the obvious question: Does MBZ intend to sell the Vseries in the US...at last? And in what configuration(s)? The ones I've ridden in were diesel powered and had seats for 9 and performed, from my perspective as a passenger, no differently than the 240D taxis that were everywhere in Europe in the eighties. As I recall, the Vseries was to be optionally powered with the VW VR6...perhaps this is the one MBZ is testing in California? Too bad VW's marketroids appear to be lobotomized ...the Mercedes alliance with Westfalia has produced an interesting line of leisure vehicles in the form of the Vito F, the Vito MarcoPolo, and the Sprinter JamesCook, none of which we'll be able to buy in the US, either!
OLTECO Ari Ollikainen P.O. BOX 3688 Networking Technology and Architecture Stanford, CA Ari@OLTECO.com 94309-3688 415.517.3519 |
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