I have to agree with Eberhard, the Sprinter is a working delivery van/truck and wound probably make for a lousy family vehicle. There's a large difference between Mercedes passenger vehicles and Mercedes commercial vehicles. They're built for different tasks and to different standards. The V-Class is a bad attempt to make one out of the other, and it shows. CAR magazine summed up the V-Class as "Nasty to drive, expensive to own. Mercedes should be ashamed." They gave it 1.5 out of 5 stars, being the only Benz with anything less then 3 stars. On that rating I would stay away since the V-Class is just a slighty redone Sprinter.