First drive: 2015 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 4x4 [Review] - LeftLane News
A million copies sold of anything generally qualify as a resounding success. McDonalds and its billions and billions of hamburgers sold. Mercedes-Benz finds itself in that enviable position of having sold, over the last twenty years, more than 2. 8-million copies of its Sprinter series of vans worldwide. (Wishful in the sense that the Vancouver Canucks have never won the Stanley Cup although the previous Vancouver Millionaires did, 100 years ago. The Sprinter 4x4 takes a rather circuitous route on its way to American roads. Due to an outdated and bizarre humdinger of a U. S. law known as the Chicken Tax (Google it), Sprinters are totally constructed in their Düsseldorf factory only for the trucks to be relieved of their running gear, which is shipped over to... And just so they can't cheat and reassemble them while en route, the drivetrains travel on one ship while the bodies travel on another. Construction will soon start at the South Carolina plant where Mercedes-Benz will spend $500-million to build a complete factory instead of the reassembly center that now exists. Although the base engine in the Sprinter, available both as a Mercedes-Benz and Freightliner-badged Diesel vehicle, is the 161 horsepower, 2. 1-liter four-cylinder engine, the 4x4 is equipped exclusively with the 188 horsepower, 3. 0-liter BlueTEC... Source: www.leftlanenews.com
