Volkswagen Multivan MPV Orange

We’d be interested to try the pure petrol or diesel Multivans for curiosity’s sake but it feels like the hybrid is the vehicle’s USP, given it is so in tune with the way most owners would use it. Which is to say purring around on pure electric power for 50 weeks of the year doing the school run and other chores but having the reassurance of the petrol engine when you want to go further for the summer holidays or weekends away. There’s plenty of power, even when fully loaded, and refinement is way better than the diesels powering most van-derived vehicles. While the official battery range is a conservative sounding 30 miles we easily survived a weekend of running round without hearing the petrol engine fire up once, while on a longer run it worked with the electric motor to deliver diesel-beating fuel consumption. That only lasts as long as you’re able to keep the battery charged up but, for all the other concerns, the hybrid system on the Multivan is one of the more impressive ones we’ve tried.