Man With a Van Challenge! (Second Review)

I’ll use this quote in case you’re not finished by then :smiling_imp:

Astana Exporter- The Official Van of Kickstarter companies and student loan businesses.


The only people who will ever own Astana Exporters are the people who use them themselves, because this just is not a fleet vehicle. It might try to sell you that it’s a fleet van with it’s ladder chassis and it’s solid axle rear suspension, But then you get inside, and it has an interior that feels very premium, something mercedes or BMW level, and yes, it is very nice and comfortable, but then any cheap businessman would read the “Sales Features” and see that is has an electronically controlled differential and wonder what utility feature got cut instead.


These are things for luxury cars, not a van that needs to be sold in units of 10. Even when you look at the engine, this is the theme that continues through the Astana Exporter, It’s a 3 liter 4 cyllinder, but then you realize it’s made entirely from aluminum and uses Variable Valve Timing. From a business standpoint, that’s just something nice, but unnecessary. Final thoughts, the Astana Exporter just isn’t a van that can be sold in bulk. It is nice, but not nice in a utility, “I’d use this to move a ceiling to Miami way”, more like an “I’d Rent this as a U-hual” way. It’s not like it can’t do legitimate work, but pieces need to be cut for vans to be sold at less than 25gs, and for all of it’s nice things, the Astana Exporter sacrificed It’s ability to be a fleet van. I would own an Astana exporter, but I would not purchase them for a business if i needed to.