2024 Volkswagen California debuts – TDI, TSI, PHEV; new Multivan-based camper van; 5 versions available

Volkswagen has revealed the seventh-generation California, a camper van derived from the long-wheelbase mentation of the MQB-based T7 Multivan that launched backmost successful 2021. First previewed by a concept past August, the caller California volition spell connected merchantability successful June 2024, with deliveries acceptable to instrumentality spot successful the 2nd fractional of the year.

In presumption of powertrains, the California is disposable with 2 four-cylinder engines, including a TDI diesel making 150 PS (148 hp oregon 110 kW) oregon a TSI petrol with 204 PS (201 hp oregon 150 kW) – some thrust the beforehand wheels.

New for the California is an eHybrid plug-in hybrid setup that features a 1.5 litre TSI evo2 petrol engine, an electrical motor, a artillery and the company’s 4Motion all-wheel thrust system. Exact powerfulness figures weren’t provided but the institution says the California eHybrid is “the perfect companion for each globetrotters, wintertime campers and campers with boats oregon bikes connected a trailer.”

Given its Multivan roots, the California is larger than its predecessor – the California 6.1 – and measures successful astatine 5,173 mm long, 1,941 mm wide (without exterior mirrors), 1,901 mm gangly and with a wheelbase of 3,124 mm.

As standard, each versions of the California (we’ll get to those soon) travel with a pop-up extortion arsenic good arsenic sliding doors connected the near and close sides to marque it easier to load items. On the former, Volkswagen says the interior tallness is 1,297 mm erstwhile the extortion is closed, and increases to 2,108 mm erstwhile the pop-up extortion is open. The pop-up extortion comes with a beforehand model and ample beforehand opening successful summation 2 broadside windows successful the bellows (all with mosquito nets).

With these features, owners tin usage their California arsenic an open-air terrace for the archetypal time, with an optional awning disposable for bid for the near oregon close broadside if they privation immoderate extortion against rainfall oregon excessively overmuch sun.

Another caller facet of the California are idiosyncratic seats alternatively of a seat spot successful the rear, which Volkswagen says allows “expensive bikes” to beryllium stored inside. You tin of people set the seats to suit your idiosyncratic preference, similar folding them down to signifier a bed.

On the taxable of versions, determination are 5 disposable for the California, namely Beach, Beach Tour, Beach Camper, Coast and Ocean. Each 1 comes with circumstantial instrumentality to suit antithetic camper lifestyles, with the Beach having six seats that see 2+2 idiosyncratic seats successful the 2nd and 3rd row. There’s besides a mattress that fits 2 radical nether the pop-up extortion that tin beryllium opened and closed manually with an easy-to-operate mechanism.

The Beach Tour is akin to the Beach but adds connected rotating and height-adjustable operator and beforehand rider seats, 2 ergonomic folding chairs successful the footwear lid, lighting successful the pop-up extortion and sliding windows successful the rear doors. This variant besides comes with a five-inch touchscreen successful the C-pillar connected the rider side, which provides entree to each camper van functions. Users tin besides bash the aforesaid via the in-car app connected the infotainment strategy oregon by utilizing the California smartphone app.

Unlike the Beach, the Beach Tour is simply a five-seater with 3 idiosyncratic seats successful the rear, with the 2 outermost ones capable to fold backmost wholly to make 2 further sleeping spaces – there’s besides an further fold-out mattress connected board. A lithium robust phosphate (LFP) camper artillery with 40 Ah of vigor capableness is besides included with this version.

Next up, the Camper is besides a five-seater but comes with a mini room that includes a 230V powerfulness supply, a single-ring state cooker, cutlery drawer and further retention abstraction successful the load compartment. This room portion tin beryllium pulled retired to the rear erstwhile the tailgate is unfastened but is different kept wrong to support against the elements.

The adjacent measurement up is the Coast, a four-seater that gets a full-fledged room connected the operator broadside and an further camper van artillery for 80 Ah of vigor capacity. Volkswagen says the redesigned kitchenette, which features cabinets, a descend and a single-ring state cooker, offers akin abstraction to the portion fitted successful the California’s predecessor, but does not protrude arsenic acold forward.

Lastly, the Ocean is the flagship mentation of the California arsenic it has been successful the past and comes arsenic a four-seater with exclusive features. These see Melange Raven spot cloth made from recycled worldly and with California lettering embroidered onto the backrests of the beforehand seats.

The luxury enactment besides gets spot heating for the beforehand seats, an auxiliary aerial heater, Climatronic automatic air-conditioning, a extortion retention container and inheritance lighting successful the kitchenette. The Ocean and Coast besides get a larger caller h2o vessel with 28 litres of capacity, which is 5 much than before. Both besides person an exterior folding array and an further 230V powerfulness socket.

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