Hybrid Multivan California now in UK Configurator - 8/5/25

[hirsty]

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perhaps not new news, but I'd not seen it until I got an email from VW just now.

c. £7K premium for the Hybrid over the TDI & Ocean starting at £85,395 / Coast at £78,495

 

[Corradobrit]

Only a 6sp DSG gearbox? Thats a downgrade.

 

[hirsty]

I think @WelshGas posted the other day that 1st gear is now electric drive, so 6x 'mechanical' gears ?

less invested in all the new van news myself now than I was; I've convinced myself that one or two years early retirement bring-forward is worth more than any van swapover.

 

[Californication69]

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perhaps not new news, but I'd not seen it until I got an email from VW just now.

c. £7K premium for the Hybrid over the TDI & Ocean starting at £85,395 / Coast at £78,495

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Yep, ordered it and got £9K off.
Interesting about the 6 speed DSG

 

[Californication69]

I think @WelshGas posted the other day that 1st gear is now electric drive, so 6x 'mechanical' gears ?

less invested in all the new van news myself now than I was; I've convinced myself that one or two years early retirement bring-forward is worth more than any van swapover.

I still have 5 years left of work, so the 5* promise is good for me.

 

[Retiredroamer]

0% Finance too

 

[WelshGas]

Only a 6sp DSG gearbox? Thats a downgrade.

But , at least in the Multivan collection, the fastest 0-60 time, and you don’t have to hold it on the footbrake . Auto Hold takes care of that.

 

[2haw]

Yep, ordered it and got £9K off.
Interesting about the 6 speed DSG

9k off, Interesting.

I’ve only recently noticed that they now do a 4motion 245hp Beach! Shame the 200hp 4m was never available on the T6.1 Beach.

Not sure I could live with the pointless kitchen unit in the boot though.

 

[thatsnotmynaim]

I think @WelshGas posted the other day that 1st gear is now electric drive, so 6x 'mechanical' gears ?

less invested in all the new van news myself now than I was; I've convinced myself that one or two years early retirement bring-forward is worth more than any van swapover.

I think it's just 6 gears no matter if ICE or EV drive, yes the EV drive is integrated to the DGS box in a special way, but if 1st was electric only then what does that mean when the EV drive battery is flat, we go straight to 2nd?!? Not sure my VAG PHEV worked like that, it was often at 0% a few times a week. The reason I read for only 6 speed is the 6 speed DSGs can handle more torque which the ICE + EV combined can produce.

 

[WelshGas]

I think it's just 6 gears no matter if ICE or EV drive, yes the EV drive is integrated to the DGS box in a special way, but if 1st was electric only then what does that mean when the EV drive battery is flat, we go straight to 2nd?!? Not sure my VAG PHEV worked like that, it was often at 0% a few times a week. The reason I read for only 6 speed is the 6 speed DSGs can handle more torque which the ICE + EV combined can produce.

I have a Multivan Hybrid. From the information I have gleaned ALL lowspeed manoeuvres are carried out by EV drive, hence 1st and Reverse. The EV range predicted uses about 85% of the total EV battery capacity, the rest being reserved for the lowspeed manoeuvres, powering the brakes assistance, steering assistance and climate systems as well as lights .
If for some reason the power capacity of the EV battery falls below a certain level the IC engine starts and the Dashboard graphics show the EV battery being charged by the IC engine and if manoeuvring at low speed this continues until about 5 mph when the IC engine switches to powering drive wheels.
Thus the EV battery never gets to Zero capacity despite EV miles dropping to Zero miles.
Significant power/torque is required to get a vehicle moving, hence Electric drive is the ideal choice thus doing away with first gear/reverse. I think you would find the gear ratios in the Hybrid DSG 6 speed are equivalent to the gears 2 to 7 of the 7 speed DSG box thus also weight saving in some respect.
When showing 0 mls of EV drive initial acceleration from stop is always EV drive.

 

[thatsnotmynaim]

Arh that's very interesting to know, is that a 4WD Multivan or was there also a 2WD one? Our Cupra PHEV was 2WD and never worked like that, it had a mind of it's own and sometimes even started in ICE mode even with 100% EV battery, much to our frsutration as we always wanted it to be in EV mode as much as we could with 7p / kWh chargeing?!?!

 

[WelshGas]

Arh that's very interesting to know, is that a 4WD Multivan or was there also a 2WD one? Our Cupra PHEV was 2WD and never worked like that, it had a mind of it's own and sometimes even started in ICE mode even with 100% EV battery, much to our frsutration as we always wanted it to be in EV mode as much as we could with 7p / kWh chargeing?!?!

2wd SWB Multivan Style 7 seater.