A friend on mine recently purchased a Sprinter Cargo Version.
http://www.fl-sprinter.com/Cargo/cargo.html
He says it gets about 28 miles to the gallon around town and on the
freeways. He has kept his other van because he still has a 24 foot deck boat
that he pulls about 50 miles on summer weekends.
I've got to admit it looks a lit like a truck and UPS purchased about 5000
of them at one time.
The key statement here is that we wait and see.
There really isn't any reason you couldn't buy the cargo version for $30,000
and an old Airstream Trailer for $5000.00 and mate the two behind your barn
and get both a shiny chicken coup and a fairly nice camper van from the
combination of parts.

Stan Wilder
More Power with Performance Coatings
http://www.engineceramics.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of
Brian T.
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 8:41 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Speaking of lubricant ~ Sprinter Westfalia

What a heap of steaming (insert what you like).

I can't imagine what that tall narrow over priced
*83K* thing would be like in bad weather (either
sitting or driving it would be all over the place).

YUCK!
Brian
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