Oli Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Full pictures and specs now on VWs website; The VW Transporter van | Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles My new kombi 140 is all built and being shipped to the dealer, ready for me to pimp it a little...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony M Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 There's one at my local dealer. The front end is square and plasticky. Yuk! I'll stick with my Sportline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli Posted January 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 There's one at my local dealer. The front end is square and plasticky. Yuk! I'll stick with my Sportline. That'll be because it's a base model!!! The sportline look great, however I think once this new look is pimped, it will look even better. Look at the caravelle on the website, front end looks great, lowered with the front lip, and chrome will just look fantastic. The new 180 twin turbo engine should br good for 250bhp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazmondo Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 There's one at my local dealer. The front end is square and plasticky. Yuk! I'll stick with my Sportline. Must agree ! everything inside is exactly the same apart from the Dials, the front end now looks like its been borrowed from a golf mk6, will be interested to see what the sportline effort will be, ah forgot the major price hike just for those few extras, not for me sorry ! same as Tony will be stickin to me T32 till they get a decent deal going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony M Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 I'll wait for the T6. That should be along in a couple of years. If you remember, the T4 facelift was only made a year or two before the T5 came along. The T4 facelift was only made in the 88hp 2.5 TDi, reckon they had a glut of them, so changed the front end and the steering wheel and banged them on the forecourts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli Posted January 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 (edited) Does make me chuckle when a new model comes out, I am the same, defend the old one through and through, and I have owned in excess of 50 T5's, in various guises, from 1.9 up to Sportlines, and I know just how good they are. However if you cannot see the bonuses of the new one, albeit they haven't shown the Sportline yet, but they have a new dash, different front end and mirrors, more extras as standard, Euro 5 diesel engine(better on fuel, emissions and £125 a year to tax) and more powerful. Oh and quieter, yes. The T5 is the best van around by a long mile, and in the last few months, since VW stopped building them, their prices have gone up, by up to £2000 on the SH market, especially the 5 cylinder models, and their prices will hold up nicely for a long time as VW have been very clever in their launch of the T5.5, very much like Ford were with the 'new' transit back in 2006. I know in 6 months time all the talk will be about this 'new' (facelift) model, as the new daddy. And the price rise of approx £1500-1800 per unit, all the van manufacturers have done this over the last year. Will be interesting to see the T6 when its released, but it'll be more than 2 years, VW have put a lot of time and money into this facelift transporter, I think they'll get at least 3-4 years out of it. I'm looking forward to driving one as the torque spread is even greater than the 2.5 5 pot. As always, just my tuppence PS And dont worry about your Sportlines being devalued, they have, and always will be in a price bubble of their own! Edited January 8, 2010 by Oli Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony M Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Here you go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli Posted January 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Good find that man, liking it even more, which is lucky, as I have 6 on order - 4 standard vans, 1 kmbi and a shuttle. I have 3 or 4 09 plate 2.5 T5 coming up for sale which they are replacing if anyone is interested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli Posted January 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 The first of my vans turned up on monday. What an improvment over an already excellent van! It is a SWB 140. Comparing it to a 130, it is quieter, quicker, more torque and feels a lot more refined. The vans just feels lighter due to the urgency of the engine, and it pulls effortlessly from 1000 rpm, not waiting for the turbo to spool up, and its very easy to pull away in 2nd, which we all know was a bit of a bitch in the T5's. My Kombi and Shuttle turn up next week, so in the case of the Kombi, let the modding begin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli Posted February 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2010 Here we go; freshly pimped Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazmondo Posted February 13, 2010 Report Share Posted February 13, 2010 Here we go; freshly pimped Looks like you went for the " caravelle headlight addition " I wish I opted for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oli Posted February 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2010 Standard headlights! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diggerewd Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Hi Looking to buy 140ps kombi, did they do any deals and how are you finding it already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Funn Posted September 4, 2010 Report Share Posted September 4, 2010 Hi Oli, I just ordered my first transporter the t5 facelift 180ps , I got the appearance pack and wondered if the grill will be all colour coded as well, do you know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazmondo Posted November 6, 2010 Report Share Posted November 6, 2010 Just had a replacement T32 Priced up ???? how can VW justify a 5K increase in 3 years for exactly the same vechile. GITS .x. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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