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Delivery vans, as I often say, are a real bread and butter market for big time auto manufacturers. Sure, Ford has its evergreen Transit, but even companies you wouldn’t think of as being haulers of small(ish) cargo have more than a toe in the delivery van market. Mercedes-Benz, for example, has a whole host of package delivery vans, mostly seen in Europe at the moment.
Nissan too, is a player in the game. They’ve just released some details on their upcoming 2017 Nissan NV200 Compact Cargo. Van! I keep wanting to add that word.
No, indeed the complete corporate name for this guy is “Nissan NV200 Compact Cargo.” Van is not mentioned, although it is obviously a van.
Mindful Maintenance
It looks like the box they shipped it in, only bent a little. It is a slightly odd looking beast. Theoretically, all design and style considerations go out the window with rides like this. You’re here for one reason: to move as much stuff in as few runs while consuming as little fuel as possible. Ergo, what you would theoretically want would be a box, or a cube, with the wheels pushed all the way to the four corners, so you get the maximum internal volume with the smallest footprint on the road.
But there’s a countervailing design consideration at play here: Maintenance.
One of the most important things to a fleet owner is maintaining vehicles. I remember talking to a taxi driver in San Francisco once, ...