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Old 05-13-2015, 12:32 AM   #23 (permalink)
niky
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Those are nice caps!

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The MB... very strange van... mid-engined front wheel drive, with a front transaxle instead of a transverse mount. Those were actually nice to drive... only ours were made in Indonesia by Ssangyong (with a 2.8 diesel, if I recall) and the interior plastics (locally sourced, I guess) turned brittle pretty quickly.

Also, the gearing was a bit too long on the diesels for commercial use... hire drivers would bust the engines while lugging them everywhere.

Sad to see the last one in our fleet go. It was a relatively painless big van drive compared to the other garbage we've had to put up with over the years.
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