ProMaster vs Sprinter vs Transit: Which Chassis Fits Your Class B?

Sprinter: seven verified models, diesel throughout, in two lengths

The Sprinter group is the largest verified group and the only diesel group. It splits cleanly by wheelbase: four shorter vans on the 144 inch wheelbase, built around adventure and modular layouts, and three longer vans on the 170 inch wheelbase, built around touring and luxury layouts. All wheel drive is standard on six of the seven. The one exception matters, and it is named in its own section below: the Coachmen Galleria is rear wheel drive standard, with all wheel drive optional on all floor plans, per our ledger. Never read the Sprinter table as seven all wheel drive vans without that exception attached.

Winnebago Revel: the 144 inch Sprinter benchmark

The Winnebago Revel is the factory adventure benchmark on the short Sprinter. Its ledger placement is the Sprinter at a 144 inch wheelbase, all wheel drive and diesel. A buyer who wants the shortest Sprinter with a factory adventure layout starts here, and a buyer who wants a Winnebago on any other chassis is shopping a different Winnebago: the Solis and the Travato below are ProMasters.

Storyteller Overland MODE: a Sprinter now, whatever older pages say

The Storyteller Overland MODE sits on the Sprinter 2500 at a 144 inch wheelbase, all wheel drive and diesel, per Storyteller current page as recorded in our ledger. Older Storyteller history and older search results place the MODE on the Transit. That was an earlier generation. The current MODE must never appear in a Transit list, and it does not appear in one here. Our Transit guide makes the same correction in full.

Remote Vans Friday and Aegis: the two verified Remote Vans Sprinters

The Remote Vans Friday and the Remote Vans Aegis share one verified placement: Sprinter 2500, high roof, 144 inch wheelbase, all wheel drive and the same twin turbo diesel. They are the two verified Remote Vans entries in our pool. The other two Remote Vans series, the Oasis and the T-45, sit on the same Sprinter 144 inch platform in our market records, but they are listed models only, so they are named in the listed section below and not counted here.

Coachmen Galleria: the 170 inch Sprinter, and the drivetrain exception

The Coachmen Galleria is the long wheelbase touring entry in the verified Sprinter group, on the Sprinter 3500 EXT at 170 inches. It is also the exception this whole article has to carry carefully: rear wheel drive is standard, and all wheel drive is optional on all floor plans, per the Coachmen features page recorded in our ledger. Every other verified Sprinter is all wheel drive standard. A buyer who needs all wheel drive in a Galleria is buying an option, not the standard van, and should confirm it on the specific van in front of them.

Grech Terreno and Airstream Interstate 24GLX: the 170 inch luxury pair

The Grech Terreno, on the Sprinter 3500XD at 170 inches, and the Airstream Interstate 24GLX, on the Sprinter 3500 Extended at 170 inches, are both all wheel drive diesel vans with air suspension or air ride in their ledger drivetrain records. Together with the Galleria, they are the long van half of the Sprinter group: more interior length, a touring layout, and the highest belted seating and luxury positioning in the verified pool. A buyer choosing inside the Sprinter group is often choosing this split first, 144 inches for adventure and parking, 170 inches for touring space.

ProMaster: five verified models, one uniform specification

The ProMaster group is the opposite of the Sprinter group in one useful way: it is uniform. All five verified models are front wheel drive, all run the gasoline 3.6L V6, and all sit on a 159 inch wheelbase. There is no all wheel drive ProMaster and no diesel ProMaster in the pool, at any price. That uniformity is the finder fact. Choosing inside this group is never a chassis decision, because the chassis is the same; it is a floor plan, bathroom, sleeping and price decision, covered model by model in our other guides.

Thor Tellaro and Thor Sequence: two Thor lines, one ProMaster placement

The Thor Tellaro and the Thor Sequence are close twins in this finder, on the same ProMaster 3500 chassis at the same 159 inch wheelbase with the same front wheel drive V6. Nothing in their chassis placement separates them. Thor as a brand separates a lot, though: Thor other Class B lines sit on other chassis, which is the brand trap covered below. Within these two lines, choose on floor plan and the specific van, and run them side by side in the comparison tool.

Winnebago Solis and Winnebago Travato: the Winnebago ProMaster pair

The Winnebago Solis and the Winnebago Travato are Winnebago ProMaster half, both front wheel drive gasoline vans on a 159 inch wheelbase. Set against the Revel, they state the Winnebago split plainly: one brand, two chassis, and no overlap. A shopper who starts with the Winnebago name still has to pick a chassis, because the name alone picks neither the fuel, nor the drivetrain, nor the wheelbase.

Coachmen Nova: the Coachmen ProMaster

The Coachmen Nova completes the Coachmen split that runs through this whole article. Coachmen builds one verified model on each chassis: the Galleria on the Sprinter above, the Nova here on the ProMaster, and the Beyond on the Transit in the listed table below. The Nova placement itself is the uniform ProMaster one, a 3500 at 159 inches, front wheel drive and gasoline. Our winter guide covers the Nova cold weather options, which are options and not a standard rating.

Transit: no verified models, and a listed set of four

This is the headline a chassis first buyer has to hear plainly. There is no Transit model in our verified pool of twelve, so there is no Transit model page on this site and no Transit row in our comparison tool. That is a statement about our verified pool, not a claim that Transit vans do not exist. The factory Transit set exists in our market index as listed models, each placed below on exactly what its manufacturer page or launch release publishes in our ledger, and no more than that. Thin ledger entries stay thin in this article.

Listed Sprinter additions, and the builder that builds on all three

Two more Sprinter names belong in a complete finder, with their status attached. The Remote Vans Oasis and the Remote Vans T-45 both sit on the Sprinter at a 144 inch wheelbase with all wheel drive, per their ledger files, and both appear in our market index as listed models. Our verified Remote Vans entries are the Friday and the Aegis only, under the pool rule this site has held since the Transit guide, so the Oasis and the T-45 are named here as listed additions and never added to the verified count of seven. Sportsmobile is different again: it is a builder, not a factory model line. Our Sportsmobile ledger records conversions on the Sprinter, the Transit with factory all wheel drive, the ProMaster and the Chevrolet Express, with no per model chassis table to publish, so Sportsmobile gets a mention here and our full Sportsmobile review, and no table row.

Brand does not tell you the chassis

The most common way to misuse a finder like this is to shop by brand and assume the chassis follows. In the current factory market it does not, and three brands in the verified and listed pools prove it.

How to use this finder

Work in order. First, decide whether the chassis short list itself rules anything out: diesel and all wheel drive standard point to the Sprinter list, with the Galleria option exception checked van by van; the lowest entry prices and a uniform gasoline front wheel drive specification point to the ProMaster list, which is also where every qualifier in our under $175,000 guide sits; the tallest interior and Ford service point to the Transit, where your factory choice is the short listed set above and your wider choice is the builders. Second, read the chassis arguments themselves in our existing chassis comparison, which covers dimensions, drivetrain and ownership in the depth this finder deliberately does not repeat. Third, choose inside your chassis list on the things the chassis does not decide: floor plan, bathroom, sleeping and water, which our bathroom, sleeps four and fresh water guides cover model by model. Ownership cost follows the same split, as our ownership cost guide shows: maintenance and fuel are organized by chassis group, not by conversion brand.

Start with the chassis, then work your short list

Seven Sprinters, five ProMasters and no verified Transit: that is the current factory map, and it is more useful than any single recommendation, because it tells you exactly which list to work once you know your chassis. Work your list model by model on the model pages linked throughout this article, run the verified vans through the comparison tool, take the match quiz to test your chassis choice against sleeping, bathroom and winter use, and browse the full market index for the listed Transit models and the listed Sprinter additions named above. Then verify the chassis, wheelbase and drivetrain on the manufacturer page for the specific van in front of you, because an option like Galleria all wheel drive is decided by that van, not by the line name.