Reprinted from Robb Report, June, 2005

Best of the Best

For those days when you prefer to leave the driving to someone else, consider a chauffeur-driven Becker Automotive JetVan (from $125,000 to $275,000). "Not only does it give you the ability to relax and enjoy," says Becker Automotive Design CEO Howard Becker, "the amount of concentrated work you can do in an hour's commute can be augmented by the fact that you're on a wireless high-speed Internet. When you get to the office, you're an hour ahead of where you would have been."

Becker begins with a Dodge Sprinter, the U.S-market version of Mercedes' globally popular Sprinter van, transforms it with European trim, and adds special (but not ostentatious) headlights, side steps, wheels, and tires. The brakes and suspension are upgraded, and the engine to 200 hp and 300 ft lbs of torque.

Custom-designed to customer tastes and needs, JetVan interiors, as the vehicle's moniker suggests, resemble those of private jets, offering elements of a state-of-the-art mobile office and top-of-the-line home theater. Even the intensity-adjustable advanced LED overhead lighting emulates that found in private aircraft. - GARY WITZENBURG