
Greg&Mel Australian Cali
I have read many Beach posts that refer to a very limited range of options in the UK. I guess this is to encourage buyers to upgrade to the more expensive variants. Since we only have the Beach available in Australia, VW encourages us to spend more by giving more options.
I have just been informed by my VW dealer that our Beach is now on a ship and should arrive in Perth in late September. We couldn’t resist the options and VW did very well as a result.
Standard Beach features here include all the usual Cali gear and a few more: comfort mattress for the three seat rear bench, pull out awning, adaptive cruise control, diesel parking heater, tyre pressure monitoring, leisure battery, full size spare wheel, etc.
So to the options we chose….. White and copper bronze two tone paint, TDI450 7 speed DSG, 4Motion, diff lock and hill descent, silver awning.
Electric roof, electric sliding doors, Art velour and heated seats, wood look floor.
LED headlights, front fog lights, high beam light assist.
Digital cockpit, Discover Pro Navigation, 17” Aracaju alloys with black detailing.
After first being told it could take up to two years to get a Cali into Australia when we ordered in February you can imagine how excited we are that it will only take 7 months.
This is our first Kombi, though not our first Campervan (40 years ago before we were married). But I learned to drive in my brothers 1970 Superbug, since then I have owned three Beetles (1963, 1969 - daughter crashed it- 2002 New Beetle Turbo), a 1960 Karman Ghia (wish I still had it , had to go to pay for our daughters education), a Jetta and we still own a TDI Passat, which we will pass to our son. Hard to believe it has taken this long to get a Kombi, and what a Kombi. I am sure it will be worth the 40 year wait!
I have just been informed by my VW dealer that our Beach is now on a ship and should arrive in Perth in late September. We couldn’t resist the options and VW did very well as a result.
Standard Beach features here include all the usual Cali gear and a few more: comfort mattress for the three seat rear bench, pull out awning, adaptive cruise control, diesel parking heater, tyre pressure monitoring, leisure battery, full size spare wheel, etc.
So to the options we chose….. White and copper bronze two tone paint, TDI450 7 speed DSG, 4Motion, diff lock and hill descent, silver awning.
Electric roof, electric sliding doors, Art velour and heated seats, wood look floor.
LED headlights, front fog lights, high beam light assist.
Digital cockpit, Discover Pro Navigation, 17” Aracaju alloys with black detailing.
After first being told it could take up to two years to get a Cali into Australia when we ordered in February you can imagine how excited we are that it will only take 7 months.
This is our first Kombi, though not our first Campervan (40 years ago before we were married). But I learned to drive in my brothers 1970 Superbug, since then I have owned three Beetles (1963, 1969 - daughter crashed it- 2002 New Beetle Turbo), a 1960 Karman Ghia (wish I still had it , had to go to pay for our daughters education), a Jetta and we still own a TDI Passat, which we will pass to our son. Hard to believe it has taken this long to get a Kombi, and what a Kombi. I am sure it will be worth the 40 year wait!