Regular readers of this blog will be familiar with my admiration for the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, something I share with a great many other British business owners, as well as every NHS ambulance trust.

The Sprinter has now been in production for 20 years, during which 327,201 Sprinter vans have been sold in the UK. To celebrate this milestone achievement, Mercedes is offering a 20th Anniversary special edition Sprinter for UK buyers.

A maximum of 1,200 of the vans will be available. Featuring Sprinter 20 badging on the front wing, they come with an attractive option bundle including air conditioning, sat nav, a Driver’s Comfort seat with arm rest, wheel trims, and a chrome grille. Ordered individually, this lot would normally cost more than £2,000, but the Sprinter 20 pack will be available for just £750.

The vast majority of Sprinter vans are sold as panel vans, often in the long and extra-long wheelbase versions favoured by couriers. In the UK, more than 250,000 of the Sprinters sold have been panel vans, with the remainder sold as chassis cab variants.

These are true million-mile vehicles. The highest-mileage van that’s still being serviced by the Mercedes dealer network is a 1999 Sprinter with 995,242 miles on the clock. There’s also a 2005 model with 964,436 miles on the clock, which equates to around 2,000 miles per week, every week, for ten years…

Although older vehicles tend to be serviced by independent garages, Mercedes does offer an incentive for owners willing to stay loyal to their dealer network. Every Mercedes-Benz Vans vehicle purchase comes with free 30-year MobiloVan roadside breakdown cover across the UK and Europe, as long as it is serviced by a Mercedes-Benz dealer.