hey everyone in today's video we're going to talk about the top reasons why
the vanagon is the ultimate camping machine let's go check it out
first it's got an easy to access engine what
you guys that was a trick
Here's our engine
in the back, in the rear we have some tool storage here i did a video on that
earlier a couple weeks ago if you
want check in for that one and the engine is actually just under
here so let's take the cushion off
(Trumpets playing in the background)
so here's a view of the engine bay now
let me tell you if you've worked on any other vehicles before this one's
actually quite easy you can see it is totally open and you
just reach in and fix it if you have to take it out it comes out
from the bottom so the engine is really really easy to work on the
other thing is if anyone's thinking hey what about adding oil
If you have to check your oil in the Vanagon where would you go well
it's so just fast and easy it's unbelievable just open up the plate look
right there there's your oil your dipstick checker right there and
you even have coolant right there so very very easy to do
so that's great size the Vanagon size is
perfect
and let's see the front of the vehicle roughly around
anyway you can see it's around 15 feet i guess 179 178 inches
so let's go measure another vehicle so here's your standard suv
here's an acura and let's see if we measure this acura
how long it is right and you can see there's the back bumper
let's see we're going down here well look at that close to 15 feet so
that's about the same length as our vanagon
so i don't know how that is in metric uh what's the number there??? 460.
so anyway that would be 4 meters and 60 centimeters so the vanagon is about
the same size as an suv that's great for parking
so let's take a
look at the interior so here we have the interior we've just
opened the door this is just a towel here for the
doggies sometimes you know they get dirty paws anyway so we have our
bench seat there the rear is opened because I was in
there showing you the motor earlier let's take a look at what this is there
you go cooking and we even have running water
so we have stove we have running water we got a fridge there we got some hydro
but most importantly this thing is huge it's way bigger than an suv
i wish i could show you the size of this but you know what this lays down into a
bed and we have a bed up there so let's take
a look at that now to open up the pop top all we have to do right here
is in here we're just going to pull this back so it's going to click
just like this
so let's pull this bed out
just like so now we have our bed so from the rear view you can see the bed
just how big it is and then how much room we have and this is all due to the
engine being in the back now in the rear we have lots of space
like i said earlier space for tools space for things
we have a nice closet let's see what's in hiding in here
uh-huh some lamps some card games and stuff like that
for mosquitoes stuff like that who knows what's in the other side there you go
lots of packaging and stuff like that sleeping bags
so lots of room let's take another view i'm standing right up
and there's our other bed so we got our bed on top just like this
we can look around we can unzip this for mosquitoes we got our nice sunroof
up there and there we can see the driver and passenger so if i sit down
like this and just look up you can see just how big
this thing is it's absolutely huge so you can see people on the top bunk
and you got a bottom bunk too so this is really good and then in here
we have some nice space where we can just put some extra stuff but watch
because as you're driving around it does make a noise (if things are left loose in it)
Then we got our table everything like this is awesome let's pan around to the
front you can see we have nice captain chairs with armrests
on both sides there's a driver's one so you got armrest on both sides so that's
really cool same with the passenger arm rests on
both sides for those long trips when you want to be comfortable
so there you go and there's our shifter steering wheel fancy gauges another
phone left nearby looks pretty cool lots of room let's
take another view
so this part's really cool one of the best things about it is uh just your
driving position they are so cool to drive and you know
what you can actually teach people how to drive on these things they are that
easy to drive here's a free video on how to learn to drive a manual transmission
especially on a vanagon so if you want i'll throw up the link above
but now let's get back to looking at the interior tons of room
in the back and if we pan up we can see our top is popped
and someone could be sleeping up here's how the van looks with its top popped
so it looks really really cool let's come around like this
you can see nice and high got the front door open
just like so so you can see we got uh our cool wheels on it but anyway uh
point i was trying to make is tons of room
so the other thing i wanted to mention was just the fuel economy me in
particular i get great fuel economy with my van i live in the Toronto area i
drove it to Halifax and back round trip, I don't know how many
kilometers that is but it's it's quite a bit it's kind of across
Canada it took me about 16 hours there 16 hours back
including all the driving around in halifax and I think I burned about 600
and that was the price of gas at the time was around
a dollar a litre somewhere around there so anyway my..
my van gets pretty good fuel mileage and if you're wondering why I look so
comfortable well I am just laying down in my van
there we go so now let's stand up again in the van
and yeah i know you want to take another look so
there you go take another look this room is just phenomenal
the other thing i really wanted to mention one of the greatest things about
the vanagon and why it's the best camper van ever is
you can name your van and no one doesn't think anything about it!!!
Everybody names their vans so my van's name is Steve Green, I even
got him his special little thing there so we know his name is Steve Green we
live in Ontario and so I don't forget the keys I put
this on but basically my van's name is Steve Green windows all the way
around our van sorry that door is open and
actually it's totally wide open here but there
are windows there and there's someone's gonna say i didn't show it so
there we go let's close the door there you go
you can see so there's windows all the way around this
van and same with the back there's a huge back window there nice thing is
we have these curtains so you can move the windows they
all are on these nice things here and you know what I noticed for a van
this old this stuff is just awesome quality!! I don't even know what
it's made of but it doesn't seem to decompose or
or really fade with the sun like it is absolutely awesome
and the other thing is you've got these little clips everywhere there's clips
right there everywhere where there's stuff in the
back where this stuff can all be covered when you're sleeping at night
so you can have privacy so these windows of course can close
but there is snaps everywhere for privacy
there you follow there and they go around
there's another snap there so they basically go around the vehicle
there's another snap right there so when you back up what happens is
when you're camping or sleeping all of these windows
can be covered with a fabric that has snaps
so that's really really neat so i'm sitting in the back there and i just
want to show you my view from the back there's actually right
behind me as you can see but i'm sitting in the seat and let's see what i
see from my view so here's what I see you can see there's
my knees there's the shorts I'm wearing I look up and look at all this space so
it's just really really comfortable lots of floor space
and you gotta remember this is the same size roughly
is that SUV which was an Acura MDX same size but yet look at the room in here
It is absolutely crazy you can paint them any color with any
type of paint job and no one's going to say anything they
actually look really cool i don't know if you could do this on a
normal everyday van??? but with a Vanagon you can get away with it
and maybe this is the last one there's a huge
community of followers that try their darndest
to keep these suckers on the road because we all love them so much