Is the Eurovan worth it?
My wife and I bought a used EV-MV (the base model, EuroVan Mini-Van, I guess) almost 2 years ago and have been pretty happy with it. We don’t have any kids, so our usage has been more in the road-trip/car-camping vein. As such, I wish we would have gotten a Weekender or Camper model, but they were much more expensive (we paid under $15k with 45k miles… the other models were consistently over $20k). We added front seat captain’s chair attachments and a couple of 12v appliances and have quite a nice road-trip machine. We’ve put nearly 50k miles on it without any mechanical problems. However, repairs and maintenance can be quite expensive. We replaced brake pads all the way around and it cost a bundle (around $1000, iirc). The 6-cylinder VR6 is quite peppy (one of the zippier cars I’ve owned), but it’s not that great at the gas pump, averaging just under 20 mpg. We’ve owned older VW buses in the past and, while I love them, they are a tinkerers machine requiring constant love and attent
