New Vito 119

[Cabb]

Has anyone got one of these if so what are they like
Thanks

[peaktorque]

I have a LWB 65 reg 119 Blutec 7 speed auto crew cab.

It's actually pretty good. I've had every phase of Vito since 2001 and this is the best built so far. I had a V6 120 CDI in 2007-10, which was bloody juicy (but fast), but the twin turbo 4 pot in the 119 doesn't sound as good (although you do get a pleasing amount of turbo noise), but feels equally as fast. Fuel consumption is a lot better than the old V6 120. Mine even self parks

I briefly had a 15 plate VW T5 'Trendline' for 3 months prior to this Vito, I hated it, with its cramped driving position (I'm 6ft 1"), dull to drive, SLD that repeatedly jammed open (despite being returned to dealer for repairs) and overrated. This Vito is massively better - IMO of course.

[Cabb]

Thanks for the information I'm trying to book a test drive at Merc

[alspeed]

I've just had back to back two day test drives of the 119 7 speed Merc Vito and the 180 dsg Highline T6 VW, would suggest you do the same.

Very close, good and bad for both, on balance T6 suited me better and the residuals are cast iron on the VW so order placed.

[Cabb]

Drove the 119 Vito crew van liked it a lot ordered one don't get it till September its on factory order

[Ilovejapcrap]

Dad traded his transporter for one.

He had the transporter from new, we both really wanted him to get another as it was a great van.

But the merc compared to the new transporter was just better.

He loves it done around 4K so far

[grumpy52]

We were using a vito mini bus type thing until it dropped a gudgeon pin and seized solid ,we were given a ford Torneo to use while it was being rebuilt under warranty .
We would have preffered to keep the Ford .

[Rjbell]

Mercedes has taken a bit of a weird direction with the new Vito I think. They have made it smaller than its predecessor so now it's barely any bigger than their smaller van the citan. They should have made it large inline with its competitors transporter, traffic and transit custom.

[hairyben]

Rjbell said:

Mercedes has taken a bit of a weird direction with the new Vito I think. They have made it smaller than its predecessor so now it's barely any bigger than their smaller van the citan. They should have made it large inline with its competitors transporter, traffic and transit custom.

I don't think it's any smaller than the last one, it's just been cleverly (?) styled to look like quite a low roofline, probably as it's used for the bus & people carrier variants where stylings important as is fitting in height-restricted car parks.

Looks ideal for me on paper TBH, but not likely I'd buy another new merc, as I tend to keep vans a bit longer to justify a probably £5k in custom racking, deadbolts etc. Probably fine for anyone looking to 3 year lease/whatever it and be shot before it falls apart