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I appreciate the problem now you explained! Good luck with the search.
We run three 'proper' vans just in this household, and the narrowest is actually the Transit. Also an ex RAF Renault Master with extra high roof and lined out as a personnel transport with all the lights, carpets and such, you can jump around in the back there is so much headroom, and it is wide enough to sleep across for most people. We have had six sleeping on mats in the back in the winter weather! (Has a factory fitted diesel heater in it, which is bizarre as it was in Cyprus for all of its service life!)
The latest is the 'Beeg Bus', a LWB 311 Sprinter Traveliner. Factory issue, so made in Germany, and it has proper floor and proper headlining, lighting, speakers, active venting, as well as traction control, stability control, and auxiliary heating and such. Has an electric sidestep that opens when you open the sliding door, I have left nine seats in from the original 16 and it has had full engineer inspection and anti corrosion treatment. This one is a keeper! Has it services and work done the other week and now it sailed through its MOT, and is ready for conversion to a long haul camper/multi purpose.
The point, if there is one, is that after many years of running personal vans as well as driving business owned ones, I can say they are perhaps 20% more expensive to run than estate cars, yet can do 300% of what those can.
Even in the SWB Tranny you can rope your bikes up on the side, sling a stubby kayak up in the roof or a longer one on the roof, at the SAME time as carrying a bunch of folk. With an estate it is always somewhat of a compromise, something in something out kind of thing.
We still have a Grand Voyager which is tall enough to roll bikes in, so MPVs can work well enough, but if it is only a case of drive space then the height is not the issue, so get something taller.
I love me vans me!
We run three 'proper' vans just in this household, and the narrowest is actually the Transit. Also an ex RAF Renault Master with extra high roof and lined out as a personnel transport with all the lights, carpets and such, you can jump around in the back there is so much headroom, and it is wide enough to sleep across for most people. We have had six sleeping on mats in the back in the winter weather! (Has a factory fitted diesel heater in it, which is bizarre as it was in Cyprus for all of its service life!)
The latest is the 'Beeg Bus', a LWB 311 Sprinter Traveliner. Factory issue, so made in Germany, and it has proper floor and proper headlining, lighting, speakers, active venting, as well as traction control, stability control, and auxiliary heating and such. Has an electric sidestep that opens when you open the sliding door, I have left nine seats in from the original 16 and it has had full engineer inspection and anti corrosion treatment. This one is a keeper! Has it services and work done the other week and now it sailed through its MOT, and is ready for conversion to a long haul camper/multi purpose.
The point, if there is one, is that after many years of running personal vans as well as driving business owned ones, I can say they are perhaps 20% more expensive to run than estate cars, yet can do 300% of what those can.
Even in the SWB Tranny you can rope your bikes up on the side, sling a stubby kayak up in the roof or a longer one on the roof, at the SAME time as carrying a bunch of folk. With an estate it is always somewhat of a compromise, something in something out kind of thing.
We still have a Grand Voyager which is tall enough to roll bikes in, so MPVs can work well enough, but if it is only a case of drive space then the height is not the issue, so get something taller.
I love me vans me!
