Mercedes Vito dimensions: Compact, Long, Extra-long — the 1.39 m van

Every Mercedes Vito is 1.39 m high inside — there is no high-roof version. Compact, Long or Extra-long means 2.59 m, 2.83 m or 3.06 m of cargo floor: the decision is a length question and nothing else. The questions people bring to a Sprinter — which roof, can I stand — do not apply here. The ones that do: which length, and what fits in each.

Below are the three variants in the planner’s database, inside and out, with the payload each one leaves after a real build. The figures are the W447 Vito’s, read from Mercedes-Benz documents and checked September 2026 — and the North American Metris, the V-Class and the eVito come out of the same shell.

The three lengths, measured

L1H1 is the Compact, L2H1 the Long, L3H1 the Extra-long — Mercedes sells by length name, the database files by code. Interior length is bulkhead to rear doors, width is between the walls (only 1.27 m between the wheel arches), height is floor to headliner before a build. The first two share a 3.20 m wheelbase: the Long is a Compact with more rear overhang; only the Extra-long gets a wheelbase of its own, 3.43 m.

The table is the W447 generation. The W639 before it is a different body and is not in the database — do not carry these figures across to it.

1.39 m: a sit-down van

1.39 m raw, about 1.32 m once a floor and ceiling are in. Nobody stands in that, and no length changes it — which is the difference from a Trafic or a Transporter, both of which come as a high roof. So the Vito is planned as a sit-down van: you cook sitting or outside, you dress sitting on the bed, and if evenings inside are part of the plan the only answer is a pop-top, not a longer variant. The standing-height table places the Vito among the other vans.

The payback is outside: 1.91 m overall, under a 2.00 m barrier with air to spare, which neither a Trafic H1 nor a Transporter H1 really offers. A domed roof fan takes the Vito to 2.06 m and wipes that advantage out — the barrier comparison runs the arithmetic fitting by fitting.

1.67 m between the walls: the bed goes lengthways

1.67 m between the bare walls, 1.61 m once insulated and panelled. The sleep-across rule — your height plus 5 cm — gives a sleeper of at most 1.56 m: nobody, in practice. So the bed runs lengthways, and its width is set by the 1.27 m between the wheel arches if it sits on the floor, or by the full width if it rides above them. The sleep-across table runs the same arithmetic for every van.

What fits in each length

A lengthways double takes 1.90 m of floor. What is left in front of it is the whole build:

• Compact — 2.59 m of floor, 0.69 m in front of the bed. A rock-and-roll bed (about 1.2 m as a seat, 1.90 m as a bed) and a box or a fridge behind the driver’s seat. The kitchen slides out of the tailgate on a drawer. The weekend van that is still a car on Monday.
• Long — 2.83 m of floor, 0.93 m in front of the bed. The length that forces a choice: a rock-and-roll bed and a 40 cm kitchen console behind the driver’s seat fit, and nothing else — or a fixed solo platform along one wall with a real kitchen opposite.
• Extra-long — 3.06 m of floor, 1.16 m in front of the bed. The only variant where a 1.90 m bed and a certified seat row coexist, or a fixed bed over a garage with the kitchen ahead of it. Also the only one with more than 3.20 m of wheelbase, which you feel loaded.

The archetypes themselves — rock-and-roll bed, fold-out bench, solo platform, tailgate drawer — are in the small-van layouts post. The Vito adds one condition: with no high roof on offer, the sit-down version of each archetype is the only one.

3,050 kg gross, 1,100 kg to 1,170 kg of payload

The Vito is a small van but not a light one: 1,880 kg to 1,950 kg of kerb weight against a 3,050 kg plate leaves the Compact 1,170 kg and the Extra-long 1,100 kg. A minimal 350 kg build — bed, insulation, 40 L of water, 100 Ah, a hob — plus the EN 1646-2 two-person reserve leaves 676 kg, 634 kg and 601 kg; the 600 kg reference build of the large-van posts leaves 426 kg, 384 kg and 351 kg. A pop-top and a certified rock-and-roll bed weigh a good share of that reserve between them.

Source line. The 3,050 kg is an uprate; per the Mercedes-Benz document named on the vehicle page, the standard German van is plated at 2,800 kg and the UK one at 3,000 kg. Mercedes prints payload ranges only, and the kerb figure used here is not verified against a registration document. The plate on the van in front of you wins; the small-van payload comparison puts the Vito next to the Trafic, Transporter and Custom.

Vito, Metris, V-Class, eVito, Mixto: one shell

The Mercedes-Benz Metris is the W447 Vito as sold in North America from 2016 to 2023: the same steel to the millimetre, but Long and Extra-long only, one roof, rear-wheel drive, and US plates with their own payloads — it has its own page in the planner. The V-Class and Vito Mixto are the same body glazed and seated, the eVito the same body with a battery under the floor: the exterior dimensions stay, the kerb weight does not, and the database does not model them separately. The twins post draws the full map.

The other van in this class is the standard-roof VW Transporter: the same interior height within a few centimetres, but a different body, a different width, and the high-roof option the Vito does not have.

Which Vito for which build

• Compact — weekends, surf, bikes: rock-and-roll bed and tailgate drawer. The best payload in the range, 4.89 m overall.
• Long — the compromise: bed and kitchen console, nothing else. 5.14 m overall on the same wheelbase as the Compact.
• Extra-long — the only two-in-one: seats by day, a 1.90 m bed by night, or a fixed bed and a garage. 5.37 m overall.
• None — if standing up is a criterion. No length gives it; only a pop-top does.

The planner puts your layout in the real variant, with the wheel arches at 1.27 m, weight and axle loads live.

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