To launch its smallest van ever, Mercedes didn't hire a model — it hired MacGyver. Richard Dean Anderson reprised the role for a 2012 ad campaign shot in Johannesburg.
Median 117 hp across 62 similar cars
Lead trim: 112 (1.2 turbo petrol, 114 PS) · up to 113 hp
Mercedes-Benz Citan W4152012–2021
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FactTo launch its smallest van ever, Mercedes didn't hire a model — it hired MacGyver. Richard Dean Anderson reprised the role for a 2012 ad campaign shot in Johannesburg.
The Citan, internally designated the W415, is a result of the partnership between Daimler and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance and is assembled by Renault subsidiary MCA at Maubeuge in northern France alongside its twin, the Renault Kangoo (also sold as the Nissan NV250). The van is aimed at both the passenger car and light commercial vehicle markets and was the first Mercedes-Benz launched into the commercial vehicle market since the Vito in 1995. It is available in three lengths, compact (3.94 m), long (4.32 m) and extra-long (4.71 m), and in three bodystyles: Panel Van, Dualiner and Traveliner. The Citan Kombi was first tested by Euro NCAP in April 2013 and given three stars, and the Traveliner received four passenger stars after safety changes.
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Trims & Figures
7 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 108 CDI (75 PS) | 2012–2020 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 74 hp | 133 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 108 CDI (80 PS, 2020–2021) | 2020–2021 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 79 hp | 155 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 109 CDI (90 PS) | 2012–2020 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 89 hp | 147 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 109 CDI (94 PS, 2020–2021) | 2020–2021 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 93 hp | 147 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 111 CDI (110 PS) | 2017–2020 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 108 hp | 192 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 111 CDI (115 PS, 2020–2021) | 2020–2021 | 1.5 L Inline-4 | 113 hp | 177 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 112 (1.2 turbo petrol, 114 PS) | 2013–2021 | 1.2 L Inline-4 | 112 hp | 140 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
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Owners’ builds
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Photographs
This Citan is really a rebadged third-generation Renault Kangoo on the shared CMF-CD platform — the same underpinnings Mercedes also stretched into its own T-Class MPV.
To launch its smallest van ever, Mercedes didn't hire a model — it hired MacGyver. Richard Dean Anderson reprised the role for a 2012 ad campaign shot in Johannesburg.
Rivals
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Chevy pitched the Astro as the anti-minivan, telling buyers life was too big for one, while it rode on a rear-wheel-drive truck frame.
The IIHS rated the Astro Poor in a 1996 crash test, yet 2001–2004 Astros later had the lowest driver death rate of any US passenger vehicle.
The boxy, unglamorous Astro quietly posted one of the best real-world safety records in America: IIHS found 2001-2004 models had the fewest driver deaths per million vehicles of any passenger vehicle on US roads.
The third-generation Tourneo Connect, released in Europe in October 2021, is a rebadged fourth-generation Volkswagen Caddy, assembled by Volkswagen in Poland.
Ford beat the 25% "chicken tax" by importing the Transit Connect as a passenger van — rear windows and seats included, then stripped out and recycled once it landed in the US.
Ford spent years in federal court over the second-gen Transit Connect: in June 2019 the US won its appeal, and judges ruled the van was cargo-only — ending Ford's workaround for the 'chicken tax.'
GM sold a rebadged Nissan NV200 as the Chevy City Express for four years, then killed it in 2018, citing weak sales and the fact that its parts weren't even compatible with GM's own parts catalog.
Its name is a pun: "S-Cargo" means "Small Cargo" but sounds just like escargot — French for snail, the shape the whole van was built to resemble.