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Van Stories.

A mobile hardware store, an organic farm shop on four wheels, a photo studio in a Sprinter – Mercedes-Benz Vans open up immense possibilities for people all around the world to realise their dreams and to bring their business projects to fruition. Here we tell the stories of the makers, helpers and doers who rely on vans with the three-pointed star in their daily work.

Van Stories.

A mobile hardware store, an organic farm shop on four wheels, a photo studio in a Sprinter – Mercedes-Benz Vans open up immense possibilities for people all around the world to realise their dreams and to bring their business projects to fruition. Here we tell the stories of the makers, helpers and doers who rely on vans with the three-pointed star in their daily work.

A man attaches a pipe to the refrigerated body of a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter

World champion cheese in a Sprinter 4x4.

Tabea Sanzio pushes a trolley full of vegetable crates

Laiseacker – the mobile organic farm shop.

Laiseacker is no ordinary Bioland nursery. The family business from southern Germany also delivers its natural produce to your door – simply place an order in the online shop and a Sprinter will deliver the produce to you.

A Mercedes-Benz Sprinter driving along a road out of town

Inca Alpaca: prize-winning alpaca wool from southern England.

A man wearing a helmet is standing in front of a row of vehicles, looking upwards

Baumbua tree surgeons: a workplace at lofty heights.

A man is standing in front of a Mercedes-Benz Vito, looking at his dog

The art of beekeeping: Falk and his bees.

Julia Nimke's Sprinter parked in a clearing

A photographer and her Sprinter on the road to self-employment.

Berlin-based photographer Julia Nimke drives her Sprinter "Emil" in the direction of self-employment.

A disabled man sitting in a wheelchair and looking out across the lake

En route to freedom with the Sprinter: Janis McDavid doesn't let anything get in his way.

Janis McDavid is proof that a physical disability need not be a handicap: his specially converted Mercedes-Benz Sprinter opens up a world of mobility.

Two tradesmen next to a Sprinter carrying paint buckets in both hands

Jeez brings the hardware store to your home.

A Vito parked in a light chamber

Where Mercedes-Benz Vito vans are born: the hidden champion from the Basque region.

A black Vito Tourer driving fast along a road

New in the German capital: on-demand ride pooling from BerlKönig.

Mercedes-Benz Vans, Via and Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe have teamed up. Their "BerlKönig" on-demand ride pooling service has been available in Berlin since autumn 2018.

Two men install a large window from outside a building underneath which a Sprinter is parked

A building material which sheds light in the dark.

An eSprinter driving over a bridge in a town

The successful van now in an emission-free variant: the eSprinter!

A man standing next to a white Mercedes-Benz T 1 in a hall

The precursor to the Sprinter: the legendary Mercedes-Benz T 1.

As a newly developed model, the T 1 quickly became a best-seller at the end of the 1970s. Innumerable variants and engine options created a level of flexibility from which users can still benefit today.

Two men in front of a workshop door, viewed from a bird's eye perspective

One of the last scissor manufacturers in the world.

Five generations and 116 years of traditional working and quality saved from bankruptcy: Paul Jacobs is convinced that scissor-making should not be left to die.

Ivan Mallinowski standing in front of three stacked containers. One of them is a living container

Steel containers: the future of homes?

Representation of a landscape broken down into a series of squares

what3words – three words deliver ground-breaking navigation.

what3words simplifies mobility: you simply get into the car, say a combination of three words and you'll be taken to your desired location much more precisely than with a street address or GPS co-ordinates.

Three Mercedes-Benz vehicles park in front of Bernd Gruber's company HQ in Stuhlfelden

The craft of joinery meets interior design: tradition meets modern.

Tools for assembling a pair of glasses on a workbench

Paris to Normandy and back – the Citan transports tailor-made glasses.

A white Mercedes-Benz Sprinter is parked in front of a house with a wooden façade

Sustainable housebuilding: the Sprinter in operation.

White Mercedes-Benz Vito driving in the mountains

Bodega Gonzalo Beltrán – the Vito 4x4 at the grape harvest.

The Bodega Gonzalo Beltrán winery in southern Spain's Ronda stands for traditionally manufactured, high-quality organic red wine. In the mountainous hinterland of Andalusia, Auxiliadora López Beltrán relies on a Vito 4x4 from Mercedes-Benz.

Wolfgang Albert standing in front of his Vito with horseboxes in the background

Tradition meets passion: on the road with a mobile farrier from the Gironde region.

In Wolfgang Albert's eyes, happiness can be found under the hoofs of horses: in the picturesque Gironde region, he exercises the centuries-old profession of farrier.

Jan standing on a building site in Vancouver, Canada

Journeyman – a Berlin-based start-up sends craftspeople abroad.

Two football teams are standing on the steep slope of a mountain, behind them is a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter

Pretty steep: Extreme Alpine Soccer with the Sprinter.

A group of Austrian footballers has invented a new extreme sport which is rumoured to be the toughest kind of football: "Extreme Alpine Soccer". They only play on the steepest of slopes in the Alps.

A football player is shooting a football into the open door of a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter

A spot of football in a roundabout with the Sprinter.

In "roundabout football", a roundabout in Porto is spontaneously turned into a football pitch. The interesting thing though, is that the goals are two Sprinter vans which continually drive around it.

A handyman drills a hole in a wall

Individually designed fireplaces with the help of Atego, Sprinter and Vito vehicles.

A Mercedes-Benz Citan with the rear doors open, a man is looking inside

Heroes of clean laundry: Jonny Fresh and the Citan.

The Berlin start-up Jonny Fresh picks up dirty laundry from homes and returns it clean in a Mercedes-Benz Citan – all within 48 hours.

A Mercedes-Benz 508 D standing on a seafront promenade

Kun_tiqi: sustainable surfboards in balsa wood.

A man is standing in front of a Mercedes-Benz 508 D food truck

Seafood to take away – the Mercedes-Benz 508 D as a seafood truck.

Three men are walking next to a Mercedes-Benz L 319

Ultimate enthusiasts of the L 319: the Mercedes fans from MB Automobilia.

Red hot: inspiring food from the charcoal BBQ in the Mercedes-Benz 508 D.

Fresh from the charcoal BBQ – that's what Murray May's food trucks from the UK is all about. For their dream, Ewan 'Murray' and Thecla 'May' converted a Mercedes-Benz 508 D almost entirely by themselves.