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- The Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is one of the world's most popular commercial vans.
- I've always wanted to drive one.
- Mercedes loaned me a $65,249 version from the 2019 model year.
- It was everything I hope it would be - and more.
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I can credibly say I've driven just about everything.
But a hole in my experience - a big one - was the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, one of the world's most popular commercial vehicles. In 2018, Mercedes sold nearly 30,000 of them in the US alone.
Mercedes filled the gap when the company recently asked me if I wanted to test not just any Sprinter, but a 16-passenger version.
I leapt at the opportunity, even though I wasn't sure what I'd do with all that seating capacity, given that I didn't want to go into the airport-shuttle business for a weekend.
Here's how it went down: