Volkswagen has announced the Dutch price of the new Transporter.
This is an update to the original article from August 1, 2024.
Something has gone completely wrong with Volkswagen’s planning. You haven’t been able to order a new Transporter for a long time. While this is a very important year for commercial vehicles in the Netherlands. The new Transporter is taking a very long time to arrive. And that while Volkswagen doesn’t even have to develop the bus itself.
Transporter T7
To keep everyone a little sweet, Volkswagen has been teasing for a long time. But now we finally get to see the first images of the new Volkswagen Transporter T7. This is immediately recognizable from the front as a Transporter, but from the side you can clearly see that it is secretly a Transit Custom.
Electric
The Transporter T7 is available for the first time as a plug-in hybrid and for the first time there is an electric Transporter. The plug-in hybrid has 232 hp and for fully electric you can choose from 136 hp, 218 hp and 286 hp.
The electric version has a 64 kWh battery pack, but the corresponding range is not yet mentioned. There will also be an entry-level version with a smaller battery, but that is definitely not a bus with which you can travel the country. Volkswagen itself also indicates that this is only intended for the city.
Can you still order the Transport as an old-fashioned TDI? Yes, you can. You can also choose from three versions, with 110 hp, 150 hp and 170 hp. The latter two versions are also available with 4Motion. The Transporter is also available with both front- and rear-wheel drive: the TDIs are front-wheel drive as standard, the electric versions are rear-wheel drive.
Dimensions and weights
The Transporter is now more than 5 metres long in its standard form for the first time. At 5.05 metres, the Transporter has grown 14.6 centimetres in length. The long-wheelbase version measures 5.45 metres. The width has also increased by 14.8 centimetres, to 2.032 metres.
The specifications were released earlier, but we will repeat them again. In the standard Transporter you can store 5.8 cubic meters. This can increase to 9 cubic meters, if you go for the long wheelbase and the high roof. You have up to 1.3 tons of payload and a towing capacity of up to 2.8 tons.
Caravelle
In addition to the Transporter, there is also a Caravelle, or the passenger version. That is the blue bus that you see in the pictures. The Caravelle is now a completely different car than the Multivan, which is on the MQB platform. The Caravelle has nine seats as standard.
Interior
Now for the interior. According to Volkswagen, the interior “brings the iconic Transporter layout into a modern era,” but this is just the interior of the Transit. Volkswagen has put in a different steering wheel, but the dashboard, including the unusual arrangement of the screens, is almost identical.
The Transporter T7 is finally showing itself, but that doesn’t mean it will be at the dealer next month. The fact that we are only being presented with renders was already a bad sign. The final unveiling will not be until the IAA in September. Pre-sales will start shortly after that and the market introduction will probably not be until early next year.
Update September 16: Dutch price Volkswagen Transporter
Volkswagen has announced the Dutch price of the Transporter. The brand is doing this on the occasion of the world premiere at the IAA Transportation 2024 (17-22 September in Hannover.
The brand will launch the T7 in phases. You will have to be patient for the electrified model variants, the diesels will be next. From next week you can order the diesels with a starting price of 29,990 euros excl. VAT/bpm. Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles will also announce the exact specifications and prices then.
The Transporter will be launched in January 2025. The e-Transporter will go on sale in a month, in October. Prices are not yet known, they will follow in October. The electric Transporter will be launched in the second quarter of 2025.
Later this year, the order books will also open for the e-Caravelle. Volkswagen expects to introduce this model on the Dutch market in the second quarter of 2025.
Comments
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anthwan say
Why why VW, this is really a Transit with a VW logo, Very unfortunate.
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mashal say
Why weren’t the photos taken at Terminal 7?
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oftenyouaretooaf say
“Iconic layout?”.
Yes, indeed! Whenever I get into a vehicle and see a clock shop in front of me and some form of infotainment in the center console, I can’t help but think of the Transporter, because its layout is so iconic…
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Richmond say
Apart from the first two versions of the transporter, there is nothing iconic about a transporter
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mashal say
I also find the T3 iconic. A T5 California is also quite reasonable.
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Richmond say
Why didn’t they just increase the id buzz and make it a transporter?
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anthwan say
Indeed, make them half a meter longer and you’re done.
We have 5 of them driving here (1.5 years) and they are excellent.
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Elfloro say
But aren’t the Caravelle and the Multivan in each other’s wake?
Or are those essentially different cars?-
reactive say
Make it even crazier…
You will soon have an electric long ID.Buzz People, a plug-in Multivan and a diesel, plug-in and electric Caravelle.
Oh yeah… and of course the technically identical Ford Transit.The Multivan is quite an old platform though, the Transporter is basically a Ford and nowhere near as efficient as the ID.Buzz….
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mashal say
MQB may be an old platform but it is still a lot more advanced than a typical van platform. Probably too expensive for a real van hence the strange construction with the MQB Multivan and Transit transporter.
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O plate say
I can’t say that the car becomes more beautiful with the Volkswagen nose.
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marcomanta say
I hope they don’t deteriorate further in quality.
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potjac say
Personally I think VW is historically the father of all vans. I also think it’s a shame that the Transporter is so clearly based on the Ford. Not that there’s anything wrong with Ford, not at all, I just don’t understand this move by VW.
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raoufff say
What a huge blunder!
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AudiRS say
Where is the +-200hp version of the 2.0 TDI? And why only a small 64kw battery in a heavy bus. Why not 100kw? So you still have a bit of range. Questions ask…
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yipikaye say
Height 2032 cm.
This means that many parking garages will be eliminated.-
BerlingoHdi say
Strange, the Transit Custom was just under 2 meters to be able to drive into more parking garages (although in my opinion they are often 190/195 cm high).
The long version is also fun, but try losing it in a single parking space.
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