Peugeot Expert, Citroën Dispatch, Toyota ProAce dimensions: XS, M or XL for a camper

The Peugeot Expert, Toyota ProAce and Fiat Scudo are one van under three names: XS, M or XL means 2.16 m, 2.51 m or 2.86 m of load floor, 1.40 m of internal height on all three, and a single roof. The Citroën Dispatch (the Jumpy on the continent) and the Vauxhall Vivaro from 2019 wear the same body. If you’re converting one of them, you don’t choose a roof or a drive — only the length, and whether you start from the panel van or the windowed version.

Below are the three lengths from the planner’s van database, inside and out, with the payload that is left after a real build. The figures come from Citroën and Toyota documentation for the Dispatch/Jumpy and ProAce, checked in September 2026, and cover the 2016 body up to the 2024 facelift — which stretched the M and XL by a few centimetres. My post on small-van camper layouts covers the furniture; this one is about the metal.

XS, M, XL: the three lengths, measured

Stellantis sells these by size name, not L1/L2/L3: XS is the short body, M the medium, XL the long one. Internal length is bulkhead to rear door, width between the walls (only 1.26 m between the wheel arches), height floor to ceiling before the build. The M and XL share a 3.27 m wheelbase: the XL is an M with more rear overhang. The XS has its own, 2.92 m — 4.61 m long overall, a car-sized footprint, and the length Stellantis no longer offers in every market.

Five badges, one body

The database gives three of them their own page: the Peugeot Expert as the donor, the Toyota ProAce and the Fiat Scudo (from 2022 — the Scudo before that was a different van). All three show the same rows because they are the same rows: same floor, same arches, same doors. The Citroën Dispatch and the 2019-on Vivaro have no page of their own — if you’re planning one, pick the Expert in the planner.

The trap is the Vivaro name: until 2019 the Vivaro was a Renault Trafic, a different, taller body with a high-roof option. A used Vivaro needs its year first, then the table. My platform-twins post draws the whole map.

And the windowed versions: the ProAce Verso, Peugeot Traveller, Citroën SpaceTourer and Vivaro Life are the same metal with seats. Identical exterior, more kerb weight, and without a bulkhead the usable length is a different sum — the database models the panel van. The Toyota ProAce City, by contrast, is a smaller van in the Berlingo class and doesn’t belong in this table, even if search sends it here.

1.40 m: a van you sit in

1.40 m bare, about 1.33 m after floor and ceiling, in every length. Nobody stands in that, and unlike the Trafic or Transporter there is no high roof to change it. So the Expert is planned as a sit-in van — cooking seated or from the tailgate, dressing on the bed — or it gets a pop-top, which is the usual answer on this body. The standing-height table places it among the other vans.

1.90 m outside: the car-park argument

The payoff for the single roof: 1.90 m overall height for the M, 1.94 m for the XL — the lowest mid-size body in the database, just under the Vito at 1.91 m, with real clearance under a 2.00 m barrier. That is what makes this the van that goes into the multi-storey on Monday. A domed roof fan puts the XL at 2.09 m and wipes the advantage out. The height-barrier comparison works it through body by body.

1.63 m between the walls: the bed runs lengthways

1.63 m between the bare walls, 1.57 m after insulation and lining. The sleep-across rule — your height plus 5 cm — gives a sleeper of at most 1.52 m: practically nobody. The bed runs lengthways, and its width is set by the 1.26 m between the arches if it sits on the floor, or the full width if it sits above them. The sleep-across table does the same sum for every van.

What fits in each length

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

• XS — 2.16 m of floor, 0.26 m in front of the bed. That isn’t a room, it’s a gap. The XS only works as a rock-and-roll bed (about 1.2 m as a seat, 1.90 m as a bed) with the kitchen on a tailgate pull-out — a car with a bed at night. In return, the best payload and the shortest wheelbase of the range.
• M — 2.51 m of floor, 0.61 m in front of the bed. The standard length, and it forces a choice: rock-and-roll bed and a 40 cm deep kitchen unit behind the driver’s seat fit, nothing else — or a fixed solo platform along one wall with a real kitchen opposite.
• XL — 2.86 m of floor, 0.96 m in front of the bed. The only length where a 1.90 m bed and a belted seat row exist together, or a fixed bed over a garage with the kitchen in front. Same wheelbase as the M — the extra hangs behind the rear axle.

The archetypes themselves — rock-and-roll bed, fold-out bench, solo platform, tailgate pull-out — are in the small-van post. What this body adds: without a high roof, the sit-in version of each archetype is the only one.

3,100 kg gross weight, 1,270 kg to 1,356 kg payload

This is the range’s strength, and you can’t see it: 1,744 kg to 1,830 kg kerb weight against a 3,100 kg plate leaves the XS 1,356 kg and the XL 1,270 kg — more than any Trafic, Transporter or Vito. After the 600 kg reference build of the big vans plus the two-person reserve from EN 1646-2, 615 kg, 575 kg and 522 kg remain; a minimal 350 kg build — bed, insulation, 40 L of water, 100 Ah, a stove — leaves 865 kg, 825 kg and 772 kg. A pop-top and a belted rock-and-roll bed together eat a good share of that, but unlike the Trafic there is still room afterwards.

Source line. The 3,100 kg is the gross vehicle weight from the Citroën/Toyota documentation cited on the van page; kerb weight depends on engine and spec and isn’t checked against a V5C. The plate on the van in front of you rules; the small-van payload comparison puts the Expert next to the Trafic, Transporter, Vito and Custom.

Which length for which build

• XS — weekends, surfing, bikes, underground car parks: rock-and-roll bed and tailgate pull-out, nothing more. 4.61 m long overall.
• M — the compromise, and the length most pop-top conversions are built on: bed and kitchen unit. 4.96 m long overall.
• XL — the only two-in-one: seats by day, a 1.90 m bed at night, or a fixed bed and garage. 5.31 m long overall on the M’s wheelbase.
• Panel van, not Verso — once the build is permanent. The windowed version brings seats and kerb weight that the build then takes out again.

The planner puts your layout in the real length, with the arches at 1.26 m, weight and axle loads live — under the name Expert, ProAce or Scudo, with the same numbers.

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