T5 facelift due to debut in 10 Months

[phaeton]

Illustration of rumoured T5.5

According to sources on the T5 Board the T5.5 will debut at the Caravan Salon in Dusseldorf on the 27th of August 2009.

Week 34 is when proposed production starts.

Rumoured powertrain includes VW's new;
-2.0 4 cylinder twin turbo TDI powertrain with 132kW.
-DQ500 DSG gearbox able to stand 500Nm of torque

Source: http://www.t5-board.de/board/t5-news...acelift-9.html

Remember these are forum based rumours

[Transporter]

That picture look like a PhotoShop job to me.

[phaeton]

That picture look like a PhotoShop job to me.

It is

Its only a rough guess of what the facelift may look like.

[Seano]

That picture look like a PhotoShop job to me.

Which is another (but really polite) way of saying truly fugging ugly.....

Who on the planet would dream of a love child between the JDM version of the Honda Odessey and the T5........apart perhaps from a mad German with way too much scnapps on board?

Another great example of why butterscotch scnapps should be banned.

[Golf Houso]

whats wrong with it? It looks just like the scirocco, MKVI, Volks-ute thing, Passat CC etc etc... They're just continuing the styling cues, and besides it'll look much much better when a decent rendering comes out

[Transporter]

It is

Its only a rough guess of what the facelift may look like.

I hope not.

[linds]

I quite like it, looks a bit "executioner" in style

[phaeton]

Remember everyone this could all be false info

[gregozedobe]

I'd heard rumours (and that is all they are), that VW was intent on splitting the transporters into two styling streams -

The "commercial" line (panel vans, load carriers etc etc) that was moving towards Crafter styling, and

The "passenger" line (Multivan, Carvelle, Sportline etc) that was moving towards Golf V1, Scirroco styling.

I guess we will find out for sure in time. VWA don't seem to like releasing much info at all about their future plans - it wasn't so long ago that I was officially told that "we have no plans to import the Pirelli Golf to Australia", and we have recently seen how accurate that statement was

[phaeton]

About 18 months ago VW toyed with the idea of combining all their variants of people mover into one.

That meant ending MultiVan, Caravelle, Shuttle, Euro Caravelle, Kombi Beach and Calafornia.

It would be a good idea and have the rail system as a package on the top of the line People Mover.