Who travels
Passenger count, seating arrangement and how people move through the cabin set the layout.
Mercedes-Benz V-Class
Built around
the rear seat.
The V-Class arrives as a passenger vehicle rather than a converted commercial one, and that head start shows in every project we build on it — quieter, better finished, and designed entirely around the person sitting behind the driver.
Method
We start with the journey, not the equipment list
A specification written before anyone has asked how the vehicle will be used tends to produce an expensive cabin that fits nobody. So the first conversation is about your travel, not our catalogue.
How long
Short city runs and cross-border journeys need different seats, storage and climate thinking.
What happens en route
Meetings, calls, rest or family travel each pull the design in a different direction.
What stays private
Partitions, blinds and acoustic treatment are planned rather than added at the end.
Where things live
Luggage, documents, refreshments and technical bays all need a designed home.
Service access
Anything that can need attention later is built so it can be reached without dismantling the cabin.
Inside
What a bespoke V-Class cabin can hold
Each element below is specified only when it serves the way you travel — and each one is engineered into the cabin architecture rather than bolted onto it afterwards.
- Powered executive seats with ergonomic and sight-line planning
- Privacy partition, blinds and acoustic treatment
- Mobile-office and face-to-face meeting configurations
- Screens, audio, ambient lighting and starlight headliner
- Nappa leather, bespoke veneers, timber and metal detailing
- Refrigeration, concealed storage and serviceable technical bays
V-Class or Vito
The difference is the starting point
The V-Class leaves the factory as a premium passenger platform. The Vito is offered in both commercial and passenger specifications, which makes it the more adaptable of the two but also means the baseline varies from vehicle to vehicle.
Neither is automatically the right answer. We measure the actual vehicle, look at what you need from it, and design to that specification — recommending the Vito when it genuinely serves you better.
Rear-seat first
Every layout decision is judged from the passenger's position
15–45 days
Typical build and delivery window, depending on specification
Inside the cabin
What the rear compartment actually does
Nothing below is a fixed package. Each item is specified only when it serves the way you travel, and each one is engineered into the cabin architecture rather than added to it afterwards.
Comfort that holds up over distance
One-touch tables, powered leg rests with heel support, calf and neck-shoulder support, heated and ventilated seats — the details that decide whether a four-hour journey is bearable.
Materials chosen with you
Leather tone, stitch character, timber surfaces and hand-finished detailing are selected together, so the cabin reads as one composition rather than a set of options.
Helix sound engineering
Six speakers and a subwoofer, tuned to the cabin's own acoustics and to the insulation built into the panels around them.
iPad cabin control
A powered centre console and tablet control assistant put lighting, climate, blinds and entertainment within reach from the seat.
Under-seat drawer
A multi-purpose drawer that opens at a touch, for the things you want reachable but out of sight.
Starlight headliner
A handcrafted fibre-optic ceiling with concealed linear lighting: the cabin becomes a restaurant or an office at the touch of a control, then returns to being neither.
43″ display and partition
A steel-framed, acoustically insulated partition with a powered screen lift, driven by two Bosch motors.
25-litre refrigeration
Opened with one control and reached from the rear seats, with cooling and ice-making built into the console architecture.
Mobile office
A work surface and keyboard solution designed around your own laptop, so email, presentations and calls survive the journey.
Exterior
Where restraint meets presence
The AMG radiator grille, chrome detailing and a two-tone body treatment change how the vehicle reads from the outside without turning it into a statement. From the front it is composed and substantial; from the rear the silhouette is what does the work.
Exterior work is specified alongside the cabin rather than after it, so the finish, the glazing and the lighting signature belong to the same project.
Typical specification
What a full V-Class build includes
Scope is set per project according to intended use and the destination market — this is the equipment most commonly specified, not a fixed package.
| Area | Equipment |
|---|---|
| Seating | Two Bentley Executive seat systems (shoulder, calf and heel-supported leg rest, heating and ventilation) plus two powered assistant seats |
| Working | Two work tables, iPad in-vehicle control system, mobile-office surface |
| Entertainment | 43″ Samsung LED display, 4D surround sound system |
| Comfort | 25-litre refrigerator, under-seat drawer, ambient lighting, starlight headliner |
| Materials | Nappa leather and Alcantara throughout, handcrafted full-length timber |
Who it suits
Where a bespoke V-Class earns its place
Chauffeur-driven executive
A private rear cabin for work, calls and recovery between appointments.
Private family travel
Comfort and entertainment for longer journeys, with the luggage capacity they demand.
Hotel and airport VIP
A guest's first and last impression of a property, built to hold up to daily use.
Also consider
If the requirement is electric, or larger
The VLE is the fully electric Grand Limousine platform, for clients whose fleets or city access rules are moving that way. For a genuinely larger lounge — standing height, extended working space — the Sprinter is the platform to look at instead.
Cabin studies
Six design series on the V-Class
Each is a complete interior rather than a trim level, and each can still be adapted to your seat count, working requirements and destination market before production begins.
Questions
Mercedes V-Class interiors
Long or extra-long wheelbase?
Both are possible. The extra-long body wins when luggage volume and legroom are the priority; otherwise the decision follows from passenger count and how the vehicle is used day to day.
Does Ertex fit folding seats?
No. Seats that are not fixed to approved floor mountings cannot meet the safety and homologation testing Mercedes-Benz requires, so they are not part of any Ertex build.
Can the roof be raised for more headroom?
No. Mercedes-Benz does not approve structural roof modification on this platform, and such a vehicle would not pass homologation testing.
Is there a factory Maybach V-Class?
No. Mercedes-Benz builds no such model. Ertex creates a bespoke interior around your use, and we describe it as exactly that — an Ertex design and production project.
Can the cabin be reconfigured later?
That depends on what was built. Where a client expects the use to change, we plan for it during design — modular tables, adaptable seating positions and accessible technical bays are far easier to design in than to retrofit.
Enquire
Tell us how you travel
Describe the journeys and the passengers, and we will come back with a design direction for the platform — and a straight answer on what it can and cannot do.