EV Adventuring: Nine Countries and 16 Days in a Volkswagen ID. Buzz Van

October 12, 2025 / Mercedes Lilienthal / Leave a comment

Some people’s idea of adventure is trying Starbucks’ newest coffee drink. Others may venture out and visit little-known towns, like Gold Hill, Utah, or Sargents, Colorado. But what if you take your sense of exploration and multiply it by a million? My husband, Andy Lilienthal, and I celebrated our 20-year wedding anniversary in 2024 by…

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Chrysler Pacifica Grizzly Peak Concept: Could We FINALLY Get A Factory AWD Camper Van?

August 23, 2025 / Andy Lilienthal / Leave a comment

Chrysler debuted the Pacifica Grizzly Peak Concept at Overland Expo Mountain West (Aug. 22–24) and, frankly, we couldn’t be more excited. Why? Because only Ford and Mercedes-Benz are offering AWD adventure vans. But those vans are big and expensive. No company is offering a smaller, AWD adventure van platform! The Pacifica Grizzly Peak Concept represents…

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Our 1994 Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear Walkaround Video

May 21, 2025 / Andy Lilienthal / Leave a comment

It’s been nearly five years since we’ve had our van, aka, the Travel Tractor. So it seems appropriate that our 1994 Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear walkaround video finally happens. So, without further ado, see the motion picture above.

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Mitsubishi Delica Deep Dive FAQs

April 24, 2025 / Andy Lilienthal / 2 Comments

I’ve written quite a bit about Mitsubishi Delica vans. From the Star Wagon (L300) and Space Gear (L400), to the Delica D:5, I’m passionate about these JDM vehicles. Heck, I even run the MDOC: Mitsubishi Delica Owner’s Club on Facebook. Because of all this, I get a lot of the same Delica-related questions over and…

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Eight Years Ago I Fell In Love With the Mitsubishi Delica

September 24, 2024 / Andy Lilienthal / 3 Comments

Eight years ago, I drove a Mitsubishi Delica for the first time. (I even wrote a post about what it’s like to drive a Mitsubishi Delica.) My wife, Mercedes, and I were visiting New Zealand in 2016, and this Delica Star Wagon (L300) belonged to my wife’s cousin, Helga, who lives in NZ. The first…

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Our Mitsubishi Delica On TFLoffroad

November 14, 2022 / Andy Lilienthal / 2 Comments

We drove the Travel Tractor, aka our 1994 Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear, to the Denver area to pick up an Egoé Nest Supertramp camper setup. While we were there the crew from TFL invited us over to have a walkaround done on our Mitsubishi Delica on TFLoffroad, their 4×4/overland-centric channel.

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Upgrading the Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear’s Rear Hatch Supports

May 31, 2022 / Andy Lilienthal / 2 Comments

Here’s a shocker: The original rear hatch supports/struts on our 1994 Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear were shot, and the hatch wouldn’t go all the way up when we’d open it. Fortunately upgrading the Delica Space Gear hatch supports / struts is easy. I’d previously looked for replacement units, but there weren’t any available, or at…

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Coastal Offroad Delica Space Gear Bumpers: Installed and In Action

November 23, 2020 / Mercedes Lilienthal / 1 Comment

We have the Coastal Offroad high-clearance front and rear bumpers (with skid plate and swing-away tire/jerry can carrier) finalized! We thought we’d do a walk-around video showing the Coastal Offroad Delica bumpers’ advantages for off-road driving, camping, and carrying extra gear.

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Coastal Offroad Delica Space Gear Bumpers: The Build Process

November 21, 2020 / Mercedes Lilienthal / 7 Comments

*Updated 12/10/20 Canadian-based Coastal Offroad makes a variety of front and rear weld-together bumper kits for Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear vans. Coastal Offroad, or CO, produces kits for both series 1 and 2 Delica L400s. Our 1994 Space Gear, known as the TBD Tractor, is a series 1 model. The facelifted series 2 Delica Space…

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Mitsubishi Delica Winch Mount

April 12, 2020 / Andy Lilienthal / 4 Comments

So you’ve bought a Mitsubishi Delica Star Wagon (L300) and you want to take it everywhere. You’ve got all-terrain tires, jerry cans, a full-sized spare, and solar panels. But you want to make sure you can get out of a stuck situation, so you start looking for winch mounts or bumpers. Well, there are very…

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