A Vito!

Photo: Karl Hallik

This is the new Mercedes Vito. No, wait, it's the one on the left. No, maybe the one on the right.. or the black one at the back?

All in all there were 13 (I kid you not) Mercedes Vitos on display. Next to a selection of Porsche supercars and Peugeot design wonders. Mercedes small cars were in a different hall. This is probably the worst example of setting up a display.

But still, why 13 examples of the same car? Yeah, I get it, one has five seats and a huge boot, the other has three seats and an even larger boot, the third has a fridge for a boot.

One of them had a side door open. But we couldn't sit there, because the seats had been folded down and there was no way of getting them up. None of the gazillion knobs and levers worked, there were no instructions, and the salespeople were more interested in the pie stand in the corner. So all the people saw were 13 nearly identical vans and no-one to promote them. Go vans!