I just hope I don’t have to endure it during my trip there in August.
You could probably buy a new transit for the extra it’ll cost to run that thing for a year.
To me, it’s more a marketing gimmick, than a practical purchase.
It’s an old 4 wheel drive Leyland DAF, which given the relatively miniscule number produced, parts are either likely to be obsolete, or very expensive. Most parts are verging on obsolete even for standard Leylands of that era, let alone odd ball spec ones.
I’d guess the H reg plate is probably pretty accurate, as if they’d gone newer than 91/92, then it would never meet the requirements for passenger use (ABS became mandatory for all vehicles carrying more than 16 passengers in 91/92, whereas it only became mandatory for rigid HGVs in 2001/2, so very few HGVs were specced with ABS prior to that, and it would be far too prohibitive to have it retrofitted).
Being 4 wheel drive, it’ll have drum brakes all round, so braking performance will be verging on piss poor.
And I’d guess it will probably consume 3 to 4 times the fuel a Transit will (I’d guess at best you’d be looking at mid-teens for MPG).