2025 Volkswagen Multivan: New-generation folks mover detailed for Australia

Volkswagen’s next-generation Multivan is about to launch in Australia within the first quarter of 2025, and it’ll be essentially the most passenger car-like iteration of the folks mover but.

Unlike the present Multivan, which is predicated on the identical industrial car platform because the T6.1 Transporter vary, the brand new T7 mannequin is predicated on the VW Group’s MQB Evo modular passenger automobile platform.

The transfer to a automobile platform is claimed to carry marked enhancements to refinement, trip and dealing with, and likewise provides the Multivan higher entry to the electrification choices which can be suitable with the structure which underpins the likes of the Golf and Tiguan.

The Transporter, in the meantime, will transfer to a industrial car platform shared with the Ford Transit Custom.

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With the brand new platform comes a extremely configurable setup. The rear seats will come customary in a 2+2+3 configuration, although house owners will be capable to slide, take away and rotate the rear seats right into a most of seven totally different configurations.

Volkswagen’s T7 Transporter will launch in Australia in just one diesel-only variant, although the model has confirmed one other engine possibility will probably be becoming a member of the vary later subsequent yr. Details on that engine haven’t but been revealed.

Pricing is but to be confirmed too, although Volkswagen Australia says it’ll doubtless be priced equally to the outgoing T6.1 Multivan.

Volkswagen is focusing on the likes of the best-selling Kia Carnival with the next-generation Multivan, with the passenger automobile underpinnings anticipated to align it extra carefully towards well-established choices within the folks mover phase.

Pricing

Though Australian pricing is at present unknown, Volkswagen Australia says it’s unlikely to vary vastly from the outgoing technology.

The T6.1 Multivan vary at present begins at $72,290 earlier than on-roads and extends to $95,690 earlier than on-roads. In the United Kingdom, the place the T7 Multivan vary is already on sale, pricing begins at £48,375 (A$93,444) and extends to £64,561 (A$124,710).

Drivetrains

Only one engine will probably be obtainable at launch, although Volkswagen Australia says one other unspecified engine will be part of the line-up in 2025.

In Europe, the Multivan is obtainable with a alternative of two turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engines – a 100kW/220Nm 1.5-litre, and a 150kW/320Nm 2.0-litre – plus a plug-in hybrid.

The latter mates a turbo 1.4-litre 4 with an 85kW electrical motor, 13kWh lithium-ion battery and a six-speed dual-clutch automated transmission, for 160kW of energy in whole and 50km of electric-only vary.

Efficiency

Dimensions

Servicing and Warranty

Service pricing and guarantee data for the brand new Multivan has not but been confirmed by Volkswagen Australia.

It’ll doubtless be backed by a five-year, unlimited-kilometre guarantee, as with Volkswagen’s broader passenger and industrial car lineup.

Safety

The T7 Multivan has a five-star security ranking from ANCAP, based mostly on testing carried out in 2022, however this at present applies solely to New Zealand-market plug-in hybrid variants.

Standard security gear contains:

• 7 airbags
  • Dual entrance
  • Front centre
  • Front facet
  • Full-length curtain
• Adaptive cruise management (with cease/go)
• Active lane help
• Rear cross-traffic alert
• Autonomous emergency braking (AEB)
• Park help
• High beam help
• Reversing digital camera
• Parking sensors (entrance and rear)
• Driver fatigue monitoring
• Tyre strain monitoring
• Safe exit warning

Standard Equipment

Volkswagen Australia will launch the next-generation Multivan in its base Life variant, although additional variants will be part of the vary later subsequent yr.

Standard gear on the Multivan Life contains:

• 17-inch alloy wheels
• LED headlights and tail lights
• Power sliding doorways
• Power tailgate
• Leather-wrapped steering wheel
• Shift-by-wire lever
• Two-tone material upholstery
• Heated entrance seats (handbook adjustment, powered lumbar assist)
• Modular seven-seat capability (seven configurations)
• Interchangeable armrests
• Under-seat storage (excl. third row center seat)
• Keyless entry and begin
• Tri-zone Climatronic local weather management
• Three-row air vents
• Dark-tinted, heat-deflecting rear glass
• 10.25-inch Digital Cockpit instrument cluster
• 10-inch touchscreen infotainment system
• Bluetooth connectivity
• Wireless Apple CarPlay, Android Auto
• Eight-speaker sound system
• 2 x entrance USB-C ports
• 4 x rear USB-C ports
• 12V shops (entrance and rear)
• 30-colour ambient lighting

The Style provides:

• Art-Velours upholstery
• Digital Cockpit Pro
• IQ.Light Matrix LED headlights
• Illuminated grille
• Surround-view digital camera

Options

Four non-compulsory packages have been detailed for the T7 Multivan.

• Multifunction desk
  • Rail-mounted
  • Three cupholders
  • Lowerable folding tabletop

• Goodnight bundle
  • Foldable mattress
  • Storage baggage
  • 2 x folding tenting chairs
  • 1 x folding desk
  • Front window air flow grille
  • Blockout blinds

• vis-à-vis Conference Seat bundle
  • 2 x single second and third row seats
  • Rear-facing second-row seats

Colours

11 customary colors will probably be obtainable from launch.

Standard colors embody:

• Candy White
• Pure Grey
• Mono Silver Metallic
• Energetic Orange Metallic
• Starlight Blue Metallic
• Reflex Silver Metallic
• Indium Grey Metallic
• Medium Blue Metallic
• Copper Bronze Metallic
• Fortana Red Metallic
• Deep Black Pearlescent

Three two-tone paint finishes will probably be made obtainable at a later date.

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