Firstly an issue that applies now every bit as much as it did when I drove the other one. Let's get this straight; Mercedes-Benz are marketing this as basically a grown-up minivan. Well, I'll challenge that and say that a grown-up minivan is, well, a van. You can even buy this vehicle from M-B Commercial Vehicle outlets with a Vito badge attached in place of the Viano one. I say stop the madness and admit that this car is, basically, a Van. And a very good one at that.
Last time I spent time with a Viano it was a fairly prosaic, four cylinder Ambiente model. As a way of carrying groups of people around it did an excellent job, somehow more professional, more businesslike than how a similarly capacious Chrysler Grand Voyager always comes across. I enjoyed driving it, as you probably surmised from my report. But it had me wondering what it would have been like if it had been blessed with a little more power.
Today I found out, with the indecently rapid CDI 3.0.
