T6 TDI or TSI .

**Sunny43.5** · 03-06-2016, 04:25 PM

I remember back when we bought our first T5 128kw in 2004 I was chased down the highway after filling up with fuel . The guy spotted us pulling out and wanted desperately to have ride in one . I suppose the T6 is hard to distinguish from a T5 so they will be hard to spot , T4 to T5 was such a huge change .

**Tornado T5** · 03-06-2016, 08:16 PM

Originally Posted by aSimpleLife

Can I take from that that there's not much about the T6 that excites anyone?

I've driven one as a test drive and they do drive better then my 2007 T5, even the dsg while reversing into a tight spot, or up against a rear wall behaved itself better then I expected. But you're right, I'm not as excited about replacing my van as I was when I bought my T4 and the current T5. Maybe because externally not much has changed and while the dash is all-new, it looks familiar and the rest of the interior is similar or unchanged to a T5GP.

You're right Sunny, I went from a 75kW petrol/LPG T4 to a 128kW tdi T5 that ran rings around the T4 for comfort, power, space, towing ability, looks... etc...

on the T6. VW Aust. has a very limted selection choice, things are sold in "packs",... for comparison just look up the UK VW website's T6 spec sheets and options, as their regular Transporter vans are sold more in line with the car range, i.e. Startline, Trendline and Highline, or try ordering in Australia a Crewvan (kombi in the UK), tdi 400, LWB, DSG, 4motion.... you can't...I even flirted with the idea of buying a crewvan Hiace and a new Ford Mustang GT to make up for the dreariness of driving the Hiace.

**Tornado T5** · 04-06-2016, 08:12 AM

Top-selling utes and vans: Deep-dive into Toyota HiLux, Ford Ranger and beyond

I thought this was interesting regarding van sales in May. Obviously the VW is rare on the ground, eg if you want wing doors it's almost guaranteed to be factory order atm, however the Trafic & Transit are manual only. IIRC the auto:manual split historically has been 60:40 so manual-only vans are very restricted in potential sales. Just about all rental fleets only buy auto.

Vans 2.5-3.5t

Sales here grew 16.8 per cent to 1838 units last month, led as always by the Toyota HiAce (668, down 2.3 per cent) and the Hyundai iLoad (572, up 29.4 per cent on the back of better supply).

But it’s the battle of the Euros that’s entertaining. King in May was the Volkswagen Transporter (164, up 59 per cent), ahead of the Renault Trafic (146, up 23.7 per cent) and Mercedes-Benz Vito (95, up 9 per cent). The Ford Transit Custom grabbed 81, down 12.9 per cent.

Rounding out the numbers were the LDV G10 (53) and V80 (43), both from China, ahead of the Italian Fiat Scudo (16).

The YTD champion is the HiAce, ahead of the iLoad, Trafic, Transporter, Vito, Transit Custom, LDV V80, LDV G10 and Scudo.

**FUNBUS** · 04-06-2016, 09:22 AM

Originally Posted by Kiels3927

Saw a Multivan two tone blue & something last week.

I reckon those 2 tone generation sixes look great. I really like the red and white combo. It's a shame they don't come in 4motion in Australia. If they did I would have ordered one of them instead of the Multivan.

**Sunny43.5** · 04-06-2016, 09:24 AM

In both our T4's back in 2000 the best engine and I believe to this day was the 2.5 petrol , technically it was half of the V10 Audi donk . Had more guts than my current T5 petrol has by a mile , dealer conned me by telling me the T5's 2.0 petrol was as powerful as the old 2.5 yeah right buddy . The con job was that VW lowered the final drive ratio so 2.5 at 100k 2800rpm 2.0 T5 at 100 k 3400 rpm . Yes it was good but did not have the grunt of the old one , that's why I would love VW to allow the 2.0 TSI back in the Transporter range of the T6 .

Conspiracy theory time maybe VWA got the jitters with the diesel gate and all those other problems when their sales plummeted faster than the Titanic , so maybe they were concerned that they would be stuck with unsellable stock and decided to keep options to the bare bone .

**Seano** · 04-06-2016, 09:48 PM

Local VW dealer doesn't stock T6 or Crafter. They aren't interested in making the effort. They are also Ford dealers...don't stock Transit either. Mind you...the local Toyota dealer doesn't have a Hiace on the floor either. The MB and Hyundai dealer does stock their vans...so the local fleet tends to run Sprinter, Viano and iLoad...funny eh?

**Sunny43.5** · 05-06-2016, 12:01 AM

Interesting find seems again us Aussies get screwed by VWA , I was doing some price comparisons on options in the UK , Sunroof in the upspeced models in the UK in AU dollars approx. $1009 here from VWA same sunroof $1990 !! Pearl /metallic paint $400 dearer here than in the UK . One option that really cracked me up was there was additional dust seals for 25 quid , wonder if they are standard here or not . Hmm that may be why the doors on our 2012 T5.1 bounced like some third world built car , the doors would close and bounce back on the strikers not like those oh so confident Golf ads on TV where the salesman would shut the door and say Just Like A Golf . I complained about ours and the dealers response was to lubricate the seals and strikers bloody morons . I checked later on a Multi van and noticed an extra seal down the trailing edge of the front doors .

**Tornado T5** · 05-06-2016, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by Sunny43.5

Interesting find seems again us Aussies get screwed by VWA , I was doing some price comparisons on options in the UK , Sunroof in the upspeced models in the UK in AU dollars approx. $1009 here from VWA same sunroof $1990 !! Pearl /metallic paint $400 dearer here than in the UK .

The is no excuse for this sort of discrepancy. It should be currency difference plus a small %. The cost of freight to here from the factory is the same whether it's a top of the range Multivan LWB Executive or Transporter Runner. It's this sort of price gouging that hopefully parallel import changes should eradicate. Love to here the excuse that ADR compliance on metallic paint means we need to pay more!

**Sunny43.5** · 05-06-2016, 10:32 AM

It was the same across the board whilst doing the comparisons , every option was so much dearer here than in the UK . It was staggering the options list I would hate to think what it would cost to tick all the option boxes . Seems that the 2.0 Petrol TSi is only available if you've got the readies of $80000 in your pocket , seems pretty dumb when you consider the basic first series T5 had a2.o petrol engine standard . There's that conspiracy theory again .