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The Volkswagen Transporter, based on the Volkswagen Group's T platform, now in its seventh generation, refers to a series of vans produced for over 70 years and marketed worldwide. The T series is now considered an official Volkswagen Group automotive platform. [1] [2] and generations are sequentially named T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6 and T7.
VW collaborated with ABT e-Line and introduced the ABT e-Transporter 6.1 in 2020 as a battery-electric version of the T6.1. [5] The e-T6.1 is equipped with a single motor with 83 kW (111 hp) output drawing from a 37.3 kW-hr battery (33.6 kW-hr useable); under the WLTP test cycle, the tested range was 82 mi (132 km).
The Transporter Sportline is the range-topping trim level of the Transporter panel and Kombi van. It comes as standard with a 174 PS (128 kW; 172 bhp) Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) diesel engine, generating torque of 400 newton-metres (295 lbf⋅ft) at 2,000 rpm, and is mated to a six-speed manual gearbox.
Volkswagen originally meant to replace them with the Golf's inline-four engine but the cost of re-engineering both car and engine made them opt for updating the flat-four instead. [14] An overhead-cam design was mooted but rejected as a willingness to rev was considered to be of less importance than low-end flexibility and low cost. [ 14 ]
The Volkswagen Transporter T7 and the passenger variant Caravelle were unveiled in August 2024. [1] Unlike the Multivan T7 based on the modular MQB platform , the Transporter T7 is based on the Ford Transit Custom .
The Volkswagen Transporter, initially the Type 2, [2] is a range of light commercial vehicles, built as vans, pickups, and cab-and-chassis variants, introduced in 1950 by the German automaker Volkswagen as their second mass-production light motor vehicle series, and inspired by an idea and request from then-Netherlands-VW-importer Ben Pon.
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The new design specifications for a larger transporter as an additional series ranged from 2.8 tons gross vehicle weight to 3.5 tons. The layout was a conventional rear drive with the engine located above the front axle, in a forward control or 'cab over' design. The new Volkswagen van was launched in 1975 in Berlin.