VOLKSWAGEN MULTIVAN
Van-style seven-seater arrives with much to prove to us, VW fans and in-house rivals
First task was as tour bus for Abbie Ozard: 10 days, 2000 miles
FIRST REPORT
WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT
To see if the latest VW ’bus has all of the charms of its predecessors
There’s potential for confusion here. This is the Volkswagen Multivan, which you could consider to be the latest in the long line of VW vans stretching back to the original Type 2.
The generations that followed have been dubbed Transporter in T3, T4 and so on forms, right up to the recent T6. Each base Transporter generation has been used for a van and a camper and, more recently, a big comfortable passenger car too. The T6 has just given way to this, the new T7 Multivan. But this time there’s more, because there’s also the electric ID Buzz, plus an upcoming ‘proper’ van based on a joint venture with the Ford Transit, another year away.