Want a Mercedes but not a Sprinter?

They also come as an All Terrain Vehicle as well. Minivan with reasonable Off Road Performance

V-clss is not really much larger than a U.S. market minivan, for which GVWR sort of limits whatt you can do to outfit it (generally have 1500-1800 pounds to work with after removing seats and other passenger comforts). But if M-B is marketing the thing, they are in a position to beef it up to more capacity than Vino/Vito.

Reference building on the Transit Connect, there are camper van conversions in Europe, some removable/convertible, for the Tourneo wagon we get as the Connect, as well as the Renault Kangoo and competitors from Fiat, VW, PSA Citroen, SEAT, and a few vans of this size from Eastern Europe (Romania, Serbia, Czech Republic make cars and trucks we've never seen). It is a very popular size and type of vehicle.

You can also find kits for smaller MPVs we don't get, comparable in size and layout the the Element that Honda used to sell here, or as small as the Kia Soul. But these would be camper kits, not conversions to something we would consider a motorhome. Camping is still quite popular in Europe, so people will camp from their vehicle, maybe attached to it or even atop the thing, rather than try to turn it into a house to live in it.

Different ideas about land use and trespass (as a right, rather than offense) mean there are more opportunities for boondocking in these little camping outfits, and many small rural communities welcome the campers and are happy to sell them whatever they need day to day.

Program director on my Transylvania tour is an avid camper, we talked a lot about how they do it there.

Love the marko polo, love the vw westfalia but need the room of rest that only the sprinter provides.

Trakka here in Australia does something similar with VW's They are Campervans not Motorhomes here

Imagine you could also do something similar with a Transit Connect.

Not that different from what GTRV has been doing in the US and Canada for a few years. They do it on a Toyota Sienna or Dodge Caravan:

GTRV mini-van conversions

MB's is certainly fancier... and likely pricier.

Nice. Shows you how far ahead of its time the VW Westfalia was.