Appreciated around the world for their capabilities, and used as rapid response vehicles in areas where roads are not the best, all-wheel drive variants of the Mercedes Sprinter have a lot to offer.
Now, you’ll be able to buy a 4×4 Sprinter in the US, and the automaker arranged a press event to showcase its off-road worthiness.
The video posted below, courtesy of Autoline, shows one of the vehicles being driven around the moderately tricky course set up for the occasion. If you haven’t seen one of these in action over rough ground, and have preconceptions about vans, then you will be thoroughly impressed by what it can do.
As the Mercedes test driver explains, it can really go where any all-wheel drive pickup could. It does have a slightly higher center of gravity than most pickups, but that does little to detract from its impressive breadth of abilities.