Ah, at mm's comments I recognize, that I've also driven some rental transporters and vans for transportations and relocations. I'm glad, that I still have the old (pre 1999) drivers license, so I'm allowed to drive trucks up to 7.5 tons max.weight. Nowadays it's -for all European- only 3.5 tons.
So once I drove such a 7.5 tons Iveco-truck, the other rental transporters were smaller.
In 1996, when my sister had moved to her new university-town, I was really shocked about the new TDI-technology. We got as a rental van a brand new Fiat Ducato Diesel (with the rounded nose). I drove it full throttle on the Autobahn -as I've done it 5-6 years before with my Bundeswehr-VW T3 Transporters, full throttle to avoid blocading the street. After a while, I was going down a hill, I watched the tachometer: 190 km/h !!
I was totally shocked, because except the very lame Army-VW's I had no Diesel-car-experience before.
Some years later, when we have moved by ourselves and we had to clear off the houses of my recently died gantmother, I drove two Mercedes Sprinter.
For other opportunities, mainly picking up bigger stocks of K 70-parts somewhere else, I got older VW Transporters from friends, T3's and first gen LT's.
If you have (like me) your main transporter-experiences with VW T2, T3 and early LT's, you can have a typical manner by getting out of these cars - and you shall remember it, when you sit in annother transporter to avoid falling on your nose!
When you are getting off a VW Bus, you put your hand on the wheel-arch directly beside the seat, push up your body and turn to the side. It's an automatism after using these vehicles for a while. Once I made this moving, when I sat in a Sprinter - and felt slapstick-like out of the van, because at that model there is no wheel-arch beside the seat.
