Guide Mobility

Full-size · built by Van America

Room for the chair and everyone else.

A platform lift puts no ceiling on chair size, and a full-size body puts no ceiling on who comes along. These are built from an empty chassis in St. George.

Custom builds

Three kinds of van, one way of building them.

A fully custom mobility van isn't a catalog vehicle with a lift bolted in. The securement position, the seating, the table, the galley and the storage all get drawn around one person and the way they actually live.

Van America builds these from an empty chassis at the shop in St. George.

Inside a fully custom mobility van: a woman guides a wheelchair user in through the open side door onto carpeted flooring, past a fold-down wooden table, captain’s chairs, overhead curtains and a mounted screen. Seating and open floor are arranged around the wheelchair position.

Inside a finished build

A Sprinter built around a wheelchair user who wanted to travel in it — galley, bed, seating for the family, and a lift, in one vehicle.

Looking forward from the rear of the van: two facing upholstered bench seats with a clear wood-floor aisle between them, a galley counter with an inset sink on the left, the Mercedes-Benz cab and swivelling front seats ahead, and a slatted timber ceiling above. Four recessed floor anchors sit in the open aisle.
The aisle is the wheelchair position. Everything else is arranged around it.
The side doorway of the van with a BraunAbility lift folded upright and stowed against the left door frame, its manual-operation instruction placard facing out. Inside: a bench seat, a galley cabinet with a timber top, an upper bed platform, and two recessed securement anchors in the wood floor.
The BraunAbility lift stowed flat against the door frame — and the manual crank instructions, where you can read them.
Inside the van looking toward the cab: a black leather captain’s chair on a swivel pedestal, the driver and passenger seats beyond it, overhead cabinets, a wall-mounted electrical control panel with switches and a monitor, and a wide clear wood floor with flush securement anchors.
A swivel captain’s chair, the electrical panel, and floor left clear enough to turn in.
View through the open side door: a long upholstered bench seat with a fold-out extension, a galley cabinet with a timber worktop, a made bed on a raised platform behind, overhead cabinets, and the stowed BraunAbility lift in the foreground beside the door.
Bench seating that extends, a galley, and a bed behind it — all reachable from the chair.
The rear doors open onto a slide-out tray at waist height carrying a Dometic portable fridge and a folded telescopic ladder, with the bed platform above it and an open storage bay beneath.
The rear tray slides out to waist height, so the fridge and gear come to you.

Passenger vans

Family vehicles with room for the chair and everyone else — multiple securement positions, seats for the passengers who walk (ambulatory seating), and a floor plan that doesn't park the wheelchair user alone at the back. The bulk of what Van America builds.

Sprinter or Transit · configurable seating

Transport vans

ADA-compliant vehicles for care facilities, shuttles, non-emergency medical transport, and municipal fleets. Driver-operated lifts and multiple securement stations.

Quoted per application · fleet pricing

Mobility camper vans

For customers who want the accessible vehicle to also be the one they travel in — galley, bed, power and water behind a lift that works at a trailhead. Uncommon, and we're one of the few who'll build it.

Sprinter 144 or 170, high roof, 4x4 available

Platforms

Sprinter and Transit.

Van America is a Mercedes-Benz Expert Upfitter and has spent over a decade inside the Sprinter — its electrical architecture, its structure, where you can and cannot cut. That knowledge is why these conversions hold up.

It also makes Van America the only manufacturer of a full-size mobility van holding both RVIA certification and Mercedes-Benz Expert Upfitter status. Those two bodies audit different things — RVIA the electrical, structural and life-safety systems, Mercedes-Benz the engineering and after-sales standards for work done on its chassis. Meeting both is a higher bar than meeting either.

Transit is the right answer when budget or dealer service network matters more than stand-up height or 4x4. We'll tell you which one your situation actually calls for, including when it's the cheaper one.

Typical mobility configuration
Base vehicleMercedes-Benz Sprinter 144" or 170", or Ford Transit
EntryRICON or BraunAbility platform lift, or ramp
Interior heightFull stand-up on high-roof Sprinter
SecurementQ'STRAINT retractable tie-downs or docking system
Occupant restraintCrash-tested three-point, integrated with securement
SeatingConfigurable — wheelchair positions plus ambulatory seating
FlooringVan-Equipped Safetrack system, premium insulation and sound deadening

These aren't stripped commercial conversions. The one on our lot today carries the Mercedes-Benz Comfort, Driver Convenience, Premium and Comfort Plus packages, custom upholstery, heavy-duty running boards and an AOD SL60 roof rack — because a vehicle someone depends on every day should be a pleasant place to sit.

Inside the Sprinter looking toward the rear: a wide wood-grain floor with four recessed L-track securement rails running its length, a black captain’s chair on a swivel base against the cream-and-blue upholstered wall, and the side door open onto red rock country with the wheelchair lift visible at the back.

Next step

Roll onto one before you decide.

We keep a mobility Sprinter on the lot year-round for exactly this.

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