Multivan Options list

[Transporter]

IMHO VAG seem to be moving towards smaller, more economical and less polluting engines (with higher boost or even twin turbos to get the required power).

I would also like to see the 3.0 V6 TDI in a transporter, but until/unless VAG put it in some other transverse engine platform I don't like our chances of seeing in the T6. AFAIK it is in the Touareg and some Audis, all are longitudinal applications, and it costs a lot to change basic architecture - the transporter hi-po market is just too small to justify the extra cost.

But we could get supprised. Just as MB changed Vito from front wheel drive to rear wheel drive with the new model some 4 years ago.

[Rebuild]

IMHO VAG seem to be moving towards smaller, more economical and less polluting engines (with higher boost or even twin turbos to get the required power).

I would also like to see the 3.0 V6 TDI in a transporter, but until/unless VAG put it in some other transverse engine platform I don't like our chances of seeing in the T6. AFAIK it is in the Touareg and some Audis, all are longitudinal applications, and it costs a lot to change basic architecture - the transporter hi-po market is just too small to justify the extra cost.

The current T5 petrol Transporter is a 3.2L V6 (173KW)?

[gregozedobe]

Yes, but the V6 petrol is a different engine, and has been put into several other transverse VAG applications (eg Golf R32, Passatt), so the basic architecture and engineering development work had already been done for these other vehicles.

I would love to be proven wrong in my assumptions, but I'd be prepared to bet (small sums of) money that a V6 TDI in a production Transporter won't happen until the T6 at the earliest.