Why we’re running it: To see if the Volkswagen Multivan, the latest ICE VW bus, has all of the charms of its predecessors
Month 1 - Specs
Life with a Volkswagen Multivan: Month 1
Welcoming the Multivan to the fleet - 18 January 2023
Van-style seven-seater arrives with much to prove to us, VW fans and in-house rivalshere’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.
So one van will become three. And while VW calls the Multivan the T7, will that necessarily mean it becomes considered by VW aficionados as the ‘proper’ seventh-generation van, the one for living the van life?
The Multivan is the most car-like of the new breed. It’s based on a VW passenger car architecture and comes with seven seats as standard, with two forward-facing ones in the middle row and three in the very back. That’s what’s fitted here, but there’s a seven-seat Conference seat package (the middle row faces backwards) and a six-seat package (only two in the back and they get armrests), but whichever way, each individual seat can slide or be removed, so it’s a flexible interior.
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"Van-style seven-seater arrives with much to prove to us, VW fans and in-house rivals"
IT IS A VAN, not "van-style"and it is north of £60k, madness.......
I thought that £1500 was excessive for a sunroof which at this price point should be standard,but the £2700 for two tone paint is extortionate
Many manufacturers stopped making vans/MPVs because SUVs where what everyone wanted, so why all of a sudden are the motoring press claiming this van to be so amazing, it really isnt, its still a very over priced van, if you want a 7 seat bus/van why not buy a considerably cheaper and better to drive Ford S-Max or Galaxy
'considerably cheaper Galaxy' 41k opposed to Multivan at 43.7k, not really that considerable