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" Eat your heart out Matt Foley, because thanks to Mercedes-Benz we now totally want to live in a van down by the river. The German brand recently unveiled a handful of converted camper vans it plans to bring to the Caravan Salon trade show in D\u00FCsseldorf, Germany. This resulted in two reactions over at Car and Driver:  How are we just now hearing about the Caravan Salon trade show in D\u00FCsseldorf, Germany? How long has Mercedes-Benz been depriving stateside camper-van enthusiasts of these glorious machines?  In regard to the latter question, it turns out Westfalia has been converting Mercedes-Benz vans into mobile sleeping quarters for close to four decades. And for some two years now, Mercedes-Benz has teamed with the company to create the factory-backed, pop-top Vito/V-class (n\u00E9e Metris) Marco Polo edition. Why Mercedes-Benz doesn&amp;#039;t offer the Marco Polo treatment on the North American Metris is beyond us, as a Benz-badged camper van with available wood floors and standard sleeping space for four seems like the perfect tool for today&amp;#039;s modern glamper. Alas, we&amp;#039;re left with only a dream of such a life, whereas our European counterparts get to live the reality.    Matt Foley would be proud.         "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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