[Vwdiesel] New Sprint UPS package cars

[Pavneet Arora]

I live north of Bolton, ON near Palgrave, and just a couple of days before this
thread started our local UPS driver showed up in one.  It looks sweet!.

What a small world.  To echo the sentiment of everone else, I too would love a
diesel van, but what I really long for is a VW Sharan TDI...*sigh*.

Cheers

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Message: 5
From: "Tyson Cragg" <jetta at golden.net>
To: <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>, <audi-VW-Diesels at yahoogroups.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:50:36 -0500
Subject: [Vwdiesel] New Sprinter UPS package cars

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I am the centre manager of a UPS delivery centre in Stratford, ON.  I just =
took delivery of six new Mercedes-Benz sprinters for my centre last week.  =
Boy, are these vans nice.  Smooth, quiet, fuel efficient, and they actually=
 have effective heaters! (ask any UPS driver who's ever driven the older tr=
ucks in the winter-they'll know what I mean).  With the old GM 292 inline-6=
 gas trucks, we averaged 7.8 mpg (imperial).  After one week of use (on gre=
en engines) we are averaging 26 mpg, and this is under hard, stop-start cou=
rier use.  These are powered by a 2.7L inline-5, common rail DI, intercoole=
d, turbodiesel.  154 hp @ 3800 rpm.  They're fast, too.  I took one on a 40=
0 km run last week and found the governor, at 140 km/h.  The old 292s toppe=
d out at 110 on level ground.  My drivers love them.  UPS apparently ordere=
d 1700 of them for North America, and I believe Fedex already has a couple =
thousand in cirulation in the USA.  As soon as a civilian version comes alo=
ng, I'm buyin' one!

Tyson K. Cragg
1985 Jetta Diesel
1996 Passat TDI Wagon
2002 Cabrio GLX
"DSL LVR"