VOLKSWAGEN MULTIVAN eHYBRID
Van with a plan
“UPGRADING TO THE LONGER L2 IS USEFUL IF YOU’RE REGULARLY SEATING SEVEN”
7/
10
FOR Easier to drive, more comfortable, more spacious than any overweight SUV
AGAINST Awful touchscreen. Would you rather wait for the cooler ID.Buzz?
Volkswagen’s van-mit-windows, the ‘car’ formerly known as the Caravelle, is now the Multivan. Which is an odd choice of name, given the main thing you need to know about this van is that it is not, in fact, a van.
Instead of sharing a body with the VW Transporter panel van (which continues as is), the new Multivan actually rides on the same MQB platform that underpins the Golf, Tiguan and, erm, VW’s latest Caddy van. Right.
By being a car that identifies with van pronouns, VW can offer a wider suite of engines and technologies, and better road manners. Which is why, for the first time, VW’s minibus can be specced as a plug-in hybrid. Prices are set to start £5,000 below the current Caravelle.