I am late to this discussion, but thought I'd add a couple of thoughts. Whilst I agree with what everyone has said about the driving experience of a Cali, the thing that I miss is the load carrying ease of a regular daily car. Before we bought our T6 Ocean we had a number of different large estate cars - the last being a Volvo V70. I used to load it with furniture, garden waste, anything really and so long as I put some sort of protection in the load area, it would take tons of things. I used it in combination with a topbox to move my kids from student halls to flats on loads of occasions. Whilst on the face of it my Cali should be better at this job, as it is after all based on a van, there are a couple of reasons why it isn't.
Firstly, the storage area/wardrobe on the left side restricts the width of anything you need to carry and the materials inside are a very light grey and prone to marking, so you need to be careful about getting everything covered. Also - if you are like us, you will end up with your Cali loaded and ready to go camping at a moments notice. That means that if you want to use it as a load lugger you will firstly need to make space. I have given up trying to use our Cali as a replacement family car. It is fine for driving around on errands and normal runs, but I know that I will eventually trash the interior of what is a very expensive vehicle if I use it for any load lugging. A tow-bar and trailer would have been a good idea, but our Ocean doesn't have all the pre-electrics fitted for a tow-bar so would be a fortune to fit. I am instead going to buy an inexpensive old estate car for local stuff - and try to keep our Cali in a decent state.
