Just another beat-up delivery van. You see these all over Europe -- if not delivering packages, then broken down beside the road. In France they run forever, probably because of the never-ending supply of new parts these invariably go through. At any given time, until it disintegrates into its component rust particles, at least half the van is less than two years old because of these replacement parts. Which, incidentally, do have to be special ordered from France whenever the van breaks down anywhere outside the French border.
Few non-French mechanics admit to knowing how to fix these. Why? Little room and many sharp edges in the engine compartment. A sacrifice of blood and skin seems inevitable whenever performing any maintenance action more involved than checking the oil. (Some mechanics go so far as to deliberately bash the left pinky against the engine block before doing anything else to satisfy the van's appetite.) And, of course, the parts have to be special ordered from the parts factory in France. (Preferably in French, if you want to get the right part in fewer than four attempts. If you attempt to order in English, it will take no less then five attempts and you will pay double the list price. If you order in German, you will get the right part on the first try, but get billed five times the list price for the part. In Swedish, you'll never get the part, period.)
And of course, all factory technical manuals are written in French. Translations are available, of course, varying considerably in degrees of accuracy. Which may be just one more reason why mechanics love to beat on these vans... when nobody is looking, of course.