Outside Van Class B adventure vans for Sale
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A Portland, Oregon custom shop that turns AWD and 4x4 Mercedes Sprinters into premium, off-grid Class B adventure vans — hand-built in-house, with signature pre-designed models and fully bespoke builds at luxury-vehicle prices.
Outside Van Class B adventure vans
All 5 vans in the Outside Van Class B adventure vans range. Filter by the feature that matters most to how you camp.
Class B
Syncline
Starting around $235,000 new (custom options add more)
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Class B
Overnight
Starting around $235,000 new (custom options add more)
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Class B
Parks
Starting around $235,000 new (custom options add more)
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Class B
Approach
Starting around $235,000 new (custom options add more)
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Class B
Baseline
Starting around $89,000 (144) / $110,000 (170), chassis included
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Why buyers love Outside Van
Outside Van has been hand-building adventure vans in Portland, Oregon since 1999, and it is one of the largest and most respected custom Class B shops in the country — over 65 employees, two manufacturing facilities, and roughly 100-plus vans a year, with most components designed and produced in-house. Be clear-eyed about what this is: Outside Van is fundamentally a custom and semi-custom builder, not a catalog RV brand. Historically every build was a bespoke one-off on a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, and that custom shop is still the heart of the business. In recent years the company distilled what it learned over hundreds of builds into a set of pre-designed signature models — Syncline, Overnight, Parks, and Approach — that you can order more like a product, plus Baseline, a stripped DIY conversion shell for owners who want to finish the interior themselves. All of them ride on AWD or 4x4 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter diesel chassis with upgraded FOX suspension, big lithium-ion power systems, and serious off-grid gear. The honest trade-offs are real: signature models start around $235,000, the brand has essentially no formal owner-review footprint (it is too small and too custom to show up on the big RV review sites), and as a custom shop lead times and the service relationship matter more than with a mass-market van. Below we represent the current signature lineup plus the Baseline shell with real specs and an honest read on who each one is for — so you can shop an Outside Van for sale knowing exactly what the premium buys.
Here's the part the lot won't tell you: the best Outside deals are usually two to four years old. Let the first owner eat the steep early depreciation, then buy a van that's already been shaken down, with the bugs sorted and the records to prove it. That's exactly the kind of unit our RV buyer's agents hunt for, and we run an independent inspection on every one before you wire a dollar. Already own one and ready to move on? We'll list and sell it through our RV broker service for the retail number it's worth — not the wholesale gutting a dealer offers on trade.
What owners love
- Genuinely hand-built, in-house quality. Outside Van designs and produces most components itself across roughly 100 vans a year, and editorial reviewers consistently single out the fit, finish, and durability as a clear step above bolt-together conversions.
- Built to go off-pavement and off-grid. Every signature model rides on an AWD or 4x4 Mercedes Sprinter diesel with upgraded FOX suspension, big lithium-ion banks (up to 13.2 kWh / 620Ah), 3000W-class inverters, and solar — engineered for real all-season, off-grid use.
- Smart, flexible layouts with real innovations. Features like the Water Box hidden shower, FoldAway Murphy bed, FlipOut bed, and the Parks 'Outback Washroom' full bath show a builder solving van-life problems rather than copying the segment.
What to watch
- Premium, custom-shop pricing is the headline. Signature models start around $235,000 and fully bespoke builds climb into the $300,000s — this is luxury-vehicle money, and the cheapest door (Baseline) is a bare shell with no power, water, or heat.
- Almost no formal owner-review footprint. As a small, custom builder Outside Van barely registers on the big RV review sites (RV Insider lists zero owner reviews), so you lean on editorial coverage and the build relationship rather than crowd ratings.
- It is a custom builder, so the relationship matters. Lead times, the build conversation, and post-sale support carry more weight than with a catalog brand — and Mercedes Sprinter diesel 4x4 service is specialized and not available at every shop.
What Outside Van owners are saying
Outside Van is a custom and semi-custom builder, which means it has almost no traditional crowd-sourced owner-review footprint — RV Insider, the largest owner-review site, lists the brand with zero owner reviews, so we say that honestly and lean on editorial coverage and named-source statements instead. The picture from the trade and enthusiast press is consistently strong: New Atlas praised the signature Syncline's design and two decades of accumulated build knowledge, RV PRO profiled the brand's performance-first engineering philosophy, and Fox Factory Vehicles (Outside Van's parent since the 2021 acquisition) highlights the hand-built, in-house construction and durability. The recurring themes are quality of build, off-grid and off-pavement capability, and thoughtful layouts — balanced against an openly acknowledged premium price (signature models around $235,000, customs higher). Because there is no large body of independent owner ratings, treat the brand-level reputation, the build relationship, and a careful inspection of any specific used unit as your guide rather than a star average. We never fabricate ratings; where formal review counts do not exist, we say so.
“a rugged adventure machine with charmingly rustic, uniquely functional interior”
“focus here is openness, a purposeful move away from segmented, closed-off RV spaces”
“If you are going to spend a quarter of a million dollars on a van, it better perform.”
“Everything we put on there has a good reason to be on a van.”
Owner feedback summarized from public review sites and forums, each linked above. RVBrokers is independent and not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Outside Van.
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