Saturday, October 10, 2015

Diesel Vanparo: Ford Transit vs. Mercedes Sprinter and Ram ProMaster

2014 Ram ProMaster 1500 EcoDiesel, 2015 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2500 BlueTec, and 2015 Ford Transit 150 Power Stroke

We didn’t drive three full-size modern vans 430 miles just to gain admittance to the 43rd annual Van Nationals. We also drove them there (with a dorm room’s worth of furniture from IKEA) so we’d have a place to sleep away our drunkenness.

Oh, right, and also to perform a comparison test of the newest big boys. After what seemed like a century of incremental improvements to the old-school American vans, our market is now awash with new European-derived big boxes, as well as little-sibling versions. We chose three of the new plus-size van-guard: the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter (now in its second generation here in the U.S.), the new-to-America Ford Transit, and a curious-looking thing called the Ram ProMaster. For the sake of intensified Euro-ness, we chose turbo-diesel engines as the exclusive power source. READ MORE ››

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