VOLKSWAGEN MULTIVAN
The T7’s done 9k miles and has the scars to prove it. But do we love it regardless?
FINAL REPORT MILEAGE 20,045
WHY WE RAN IT
To see if the latest VW ’bus has all of the charms of its predecessors
I can’t remember the last time one of our cars had as eventful a time here as the Volkswagen Multivan. As soon as it arrived with me, it was pilfered for a 2000- mile job around Britain acting as a band’s tour bus. On its return, it was a support vehicle for several far-flung photoshoots. Then it was needed for a full Autocar road test.
At that point, things started to go awry, although mostly through no fault of the Multivan’s own. More on that later.
So to the details. The T7 Multivan is the latest in a long line of VW ‘buses’, one of three replacements for the T6 Transporter but the only one with T7 in its name. The others are the electric ID Buzz and a forthcoming Ford-VW commercial vehicle joint venture.