Volkswagen is working on a new spatial passenger bus, of which we can now show a first teaser image thanks to the Spanish Motor.es.
For some time now, Volkswagen has been testing a car that is currently referred to as the T7. The packed T7 initially seemed to be the successor to the current T6, but nothing could be further from the truth. The current Transporter will continue to exist as a company car, but will have a new passenger version next to it. That means the Multivan is being separated from the Transporter family and now a first teaser record of that new ballroom has hit digital channels.
Test copy Volkswagen ‘T7 Multivan’
The new Multivan, of which the question remains whether it will actually be called that, will be more than just ‘the new Multivan’. Where the current type of course already provides more comfort than the simpler passenger versions of the Transporter, Volkswagen is aiming more than ever at indulgence with its successor. “The T7 is only offered as a Multivan. We have uncompromisingly combined the comfort and dimensions of a passenger car with the space and variability of a van,” Volkswagen Sales CEO Heinz-Jürgen Löw said recently in an interview with the German Automedienportal.
The new T7 Multivan, which also seems to serve as a spiritual successor to the Sharan, gets apparently sharply cut and strikingly flat headlights in its muzzle. Sliding doors are for the sake of easy entry of the party. We expect more details later this year. The Multivan has a carriage where the front is optically less fused with the rest of the carriage. In addition, Wolfsburg cuts the A-pillar into two parts and fills the space in between with an extra side window. Of course we know something similar about the Citroën C4 Space Tourer. By the way, Volkswagen already has a kind of Sharan successor on the menu in China in the form of the Viloran.
The ‘T6’ Transporter is therefore allowed to travel as a company car after the appearance of the new Multivan. Although the T6 was presented in 2015, it is a further development of the T5 from 2003 under the skin. It remains to be seen exactly when the electric production version of the ID Buzz will be added to Volkswagen’s commercial vehicle range