New Volkswagen Transporter: outside and inside

The new Volkswagen Transporter will be special. It will be less of a Volkswagen and more of a Ford. For the new Transporter, Volkswagen borrows the Transit Custom from Ford, a bus on which it pours its own design sauce and into which it squeezes its own interior. We now know more about the powertrains of the new Volkswagen Transporter.

Volkswagen Transporter: the rear and windows are very similar to those of the Transit Custom.

No Transporter without diesel engines, so Volkswagen is already reporting the arrival of 110, 150 and 170 hp TDI diesel engines. Four-wheel drive is possible from the 150 hp variant. There is also a 233 hp plug-in hybrid, but also four fully electric versions. These electric e-Transporters will have powers of 116, 136, 218 and 286 hp. The battery pack of the electric e-Transporters is 83 kWh, although the 116 hp entry-level model has to make do with a 54 kWh pack. The first electric Volkswagen e-Transporter will be rear-wheel drive, although a four-wheel drive version is also in the pipeline. The electric Transporter is simply delivered next to the electric ID Buzz Cargo.

The new Transporter will be 5.05 meters long and will therefore increase in length by no less than 15 centimeters compared to the outgoing model. The wheelbase increases by almost 10 centimeters to 3.1 meters. But there’s more. There is also a 5.45 meter long Transporter in the pipeline with an extended wheelbase. The loading volume of the Transporter is – depending on the chosen length and height – 5.8 to 9 cubic meters. It will therefore be considerably more spacious than the ID Buzz Cargo. This results in a loading volume of 3.9 cubic meters. The maximum payload is 1,300 kilos, while that of the ID Buzz Cargo is 650 kilos.

Volkswagen Transporter