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What's nicer to drive? Sprinters or Transits.

  • 07-03-2012 12:17AM
    #1
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,885 ✭✭✭✭


    For many years as I grew up, my traditional view of make and model of an Ambulance was a Ford Transit.
    These days it seems to be the Mercedes Benz sprinter although I have seen the odd new Transit sneak in here and there.
    So in the eyes of the people who drive and work in these vehicles, which company make the better, more reliable ambulances? Ford, Mercedes Benz or someone else from the past (LDV, Bedford, Renault?)

    This too shall pass.



Comments

  • #2
    scholar007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 902 ✭✭✭scholar007


    Ya used to be kept nice and warm in da Merc! :D


    http://www.herald.ie/news/third-ambulance-fire-forces-hse-to-ground-mercedes-fleet-1596869.html


  • #3
    Medic475
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 290 ✭✭Medic475


    Would perfer the Transits over the Sprinters IMO!


  • #4
    goldie fish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,195 ✭✭✭goldie fish


    Sprinter is more comfy, the engine isn't screaming at you "change gear now". Suspension is better too. At speed it's easy to think the transit is running away from you.


  • #5
    casper69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 ✭casper69


    Out of the two of them I'd prefer to drive a Dennis!!!!


  • #6
    emigrate2012
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 323 ✭✭emigrate2012


    Sprinters for motorway and long hauls, anything twisty though it's got to be a swb transit!


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  • #7
    mr.dunkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81 ✭✭mr.dunkey


    The new ford remounts in the NAS are a great drive, 200 bhp, 3.2 diesel
    The ride in the rear is smoother than the WAS mercs.


  • #8
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,885 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    casper69 wrote: »
    Out of the two of them I'd prefer to drive a Dennis!!!!
    Really?
    4583404245_b5daaaaa34.jpg

    From a nice Flickr set, oh remember when Ambulance attendants (or what ever they were called back then) used to drive ambulances with sliding cab doors which they never shut.

    This too shall pass.



  • #9
    darragh o meara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭darragh o meara


    I've driven both and always preffered the sprinter but I can't understand why they didn't supply them with an auto gearbox. They're a much nicer drive in auto. The only downside I saw with the merc both personally and from the constant supply to th HSE is the indicators on the mirrors. Any of the sprinters I've known in the HSE got an indicator nearly every fortnight :)


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