>> Mercedes makes all the Sprinters.

Mark, thanks for the additional Sprinter info.

Of course, the Freightliner... I missed the visual connection because
all of the local Sprinters are white and are the long bed campers.

There is an older (I'm 49) couple here in town that got the shortest
Freightliner version of the 'Mercedes'/ Sprinter van about two years
ago, and I've only just seen these Sprinters in town in the last six
months, and never saw one before that, and we get LOTS of tourist
traffic through here.

Anyhow, their Freightliner is RED, and totally decked out with windows
all the way around, and PLUSH interior seating. It looks like a large
soccer mom van inside except one can easily stand up! It looks WEIRD
motoring around town with ONE person inside most of the time. It's a
van, no, it's a bus, no, it's a sign of conspicuous consumption in that
incarnation. But now I know why I saw it at the local Dodge dealer last
month.

Give me a Vanagon and/or a Syncro any day!

Later
Derek -