We have posted before on the hardy Mercedes Benz 240D. Used to be every taxi is Lisbon was a 240D, probably other cities too. This specimen was in Cambridge on one of those April days you dream of in February.
Trucks, cars, highways, landscape, good writing. "You cannot travel on the path, before you have become the Path itself."
AL: For comparison, a 1980 GMC Rally STX van, in Banff.. and here's another 4x4 van from New Hampshire, set up as a shooting brake.