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Laura Berry

Senior Journalist

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Richard Berry takes a look at why the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is the best-selling heavy duty van on the Australian market.

Australia’s van-landscape (vanscape?) looked very different when the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter arrived here in 1998.

There were plenty of light commercial van offerings such as Toyota’s HiAce, but the segment above that - the heavy commercial truck under 8000kg - was populated almost entirely by traditional cab-chassis trucks with only Iveco offering a proper van rival in the form of the Daily.

Read the full Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 2016 review.