2015 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 4x4 - Car and Driver (blog)
Take our flying to Kelowna, British Columbia, to drive the 2015 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 4x4 on roads that included miles of rugged, two-track logging paths. Mercedes was eager to show us that the four-wheel-drive Sprinter has serious off-road chops, sure, but we were generally curious to find out how a $40K-plus, lifted, four-by-four full-size van performs. ” Next came strict orders to not use the tree-lined, single-lane roads that shot uphill from our winding mountain route. Off-Road Vannin’—Just Don’t Poke the Bears To get an idea of where we were, pull up Google Maps, imagine a straight line from Vancouver to Calgary, and drop a pin somewhere in the middle. Our potentially perilous route would take us to a logging road in remote Mica Creek that promised to be more challenging than the man-made off-road course on which we sampled a Sprinter 4x4 prototype last year. As we ascended into the mountains, we noted our first on-road impressions of the Sprinter 4x4—the prototypes we drove last fall weren’t allowed on public roads—and, in that environment, it drives just like the regular, non-4x4 version. Mercedes jacks up the 4x4’s suspension by 4. 3 inches in front and 3. 1 in the rear, but aside from the raised ride height and a switch to the right of the steering wheel to engage four-wheel drive, there’s little indication the 265-pound 4WD... Source: www.caranddriver.com
