got inside a Nissan NV2500
I was pretty sure I didn’t want an NV unless I got a screaming deal on it, but did want to give it a fair shake before dismissing it.
In person this thing seems wrong, really wrong for a camper platform. The truck snout is massive and doesn’t seem related to the rest of the vehicle. The cockpit feels needlessly overbuilt, ill-suited for conversion. When I got in the driver’s seat I was struck by how giant and trucky it felt. By comparison, the Transit felt like a friendly minivan and the Promaster felt like a utilitarian shuttlebus. Both of them felt like great candidates for conversion.
Then I stepped into the cargo area and it felt… restricting. I’m not claustrophobic, but if I were claustrophobic the living area of the NV would probably trigger something. Was this an optical illusion? Was I so disappointed by the exterior and cockpit that was imagining how tight the cargo area was?
When I got home I started an NV page on the wiki, and updated the Eurovan page with the following data. Turns out I was not imagining the cramped space in the NV:
cargo/living area comparison
| **NV** | 75“ | 120” | 70.2“ | 54” | 323.1'[2)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__2) |
| **Promaster** | 76“ | 123”[3)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__3), 144“[4)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__4), 160”[5)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__5) | **74“** | **56”** | 406'[6)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__6), 459'[7)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__7), 529.7'[8)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__8) |
| **Sprinter** | 77.8“[9)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__9) | 128.5”[10)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__10), 169.3[11)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__11), **185.3“**[12)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__12) | 70.1”[13)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__13) | 53.1“ | 371'[14)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__14), **494'**[15)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__15), **547'**[16)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__16) |
| **Transit** | 72”[17)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__17), **81.5“**[18)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__18) | 125”[19)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__19), 141“[20)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__20), 171”[21)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__21) | 70.2[22)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__22) | 54.8“[23)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__23) | 317.3'[24)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__24), 363.9'[25)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__25), 411.4'[26)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__26), 496.0'[27)](http://rvwiki.mousetrap.net/doku.php?id=rv:eurovan#fn__27) |