<My understanding, is that keeping a Eurovan on the road can be
significantly more expensive than doing the same with a Vanagon,
assuming you have some decent shadetree mechanic skills.  This is based
on limited personal experience, and talking to some other people that
had both.>

I had sent a pmail reply to this last night, but after reading this I'll make it public. Few months back I was talking to a Eurovan owner in a shopping center parking lot. He told me he had gotten rid of his Vanagon Westy to buy the Eurovan. He now regretted doing so, as the Eurovan was more troublesome and more expensive to repair-WOW.       Jeff