Mercedes Marco Polo - V class based

[C240Sport97]

Any one seen one at a dealer anywhere?

It's MB's posh campervan, designed to compete with VW California.

 

[BTB 500]

IIRC it's been around since the W447 first came out but I don't think I've ever seen one in real life! The in-laws showed me brochures when they were looking at camper vans a couple of years ago. I think VW Californias are equally rare - nice, but a lot of money for a cramped camper.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Saw one 2 days ago in fact.

Press release here:

https://www.mbclub.co.uk/forums/mercedes-news/174786-mercedes-marco-polo.html

 

[whitenemesis]

What's the rush on one of these?

 

[Primo]

I've just bought one!

 

[kit17]

There was one at Mercedes world brooklands a couple of months ago when I visited , looked quite smart

 

[219]

IIRC it's been around since the W447 first came out but I don't think I've ever seen one in real life! The in-laws showed me brochures when they were looking at camper vans a couple of years ago. I think VW Californias are equally rare - nice, but a lot of money for a cramped camper.

You mean a crampervan?

 

[Deleted96908]

yeah, but look at where you can go

 

[h17n dj]

There was one at MBMK for ages... Going there later so I shall report back.

 

[C43AMG]

It was still at Brooklands last Sunday.

 

[BTB 500]

As mentioned last year these are a bit of a niche market ... they are really pretty tight on space inside, and you can easily get something a bit bigger for similar money albeit not made by M-B.

Camper vans don't really work IMHO unless you get a big one. Spent many hours travelling in my parents' VW ones (Danbury) but always had to put a tent up when we arrived!

 

[MercedesDriver]

Last summer I was behind one on a train and it looked great. Proper Glampervan.

 

[BTB 500]

Last summer I was behind one on a train and it looked great.

So it should, for £50k plus!

 

[Primo]

As mentioned last year these are a bit of a niche market ... they are really pretty tight on space inside, and you can easily get something a bit bigger for similar money albeit not made by M-B.

Camper vans don't really work IMHO unless you get a big one. Spent many hours travelling in my parents' VW ones (Danbury) but always had to put a tent up when we arrived!

It's horses for courses really. When the kinds were younger we had a 28ft 3-axle Burstner 747 which was great. However, once you're parked up that's it. Now that we're approaching retirement we want something that we can take into a town centre and park in a normal bay. Sure it has shortcomings but if you can live with those it is a fantastic bit of kit. Unfortunately the MB dealer network are next to useless so if you are interested you need to organise a demo with an owner via the owners forum or FB page.

 

[C43AMG]

Any one seen one at a dealer anywhere?

There is one at Brooklands.