{"id":7721,"date":"2015-08-18T13:10:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7721"},"modified":"2015-08-18T13:10:36","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T13:10:36","slug":"mercedes-benz-celebrates-20-years-of-sprinter-with-special-anniversary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7721","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz celebrates 20 years of Sprinter with special anniversary edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mercedes-BenzRegular readers of this blog will be familiar with my admiration for the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, something I share with a great many other British<\/a> business<\/a> owners<\/a>, as well as\u00a0every\u00a0<\/em>NHS ambulance<\/a> trust.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0is offering a 20th Anniversary special edition Sprinter for UK buyers.<\/p>\n

A maximum of 1,200 of the vans will be available. Featuring\u00a0Sprinter 20\u00a0<\/em>badging on the front wing, they come with an attractive option bundle including\u00a0air conditioning, sat nav, a Driver\u2019s Comfort seat with arm rest, wheel trims, and a chrome grille.\u00a0Ordered individually, this lot would normally cost more than \u00a32,000, but the Sprinter 20 pack will be available for just \u00a3750.<\/p>\n

The vast majority of Sprinter vans are sold as panel vans, often in the long and extra-long wheelbase\u00a0versions\u00a0favoured by couriers.\u00a0In the UK, more than 250,000\u00a0of the Sprinters sold have been panel vans, with the remainder sold as chassis cab variants.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0ten years…<\/p>\n

Although older vehicles\u00a0tend 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\u00a0cover across the UK and Europe, as long as it is serviced by a Mercedes-Benz dealer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mercedes-Benz has launched the Sprinter 20th Anniversary limited edition to celebrate 20 years of Sprinter sales in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1935,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7726,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions\/7726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}