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Light CVs fight for recognition
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• Volkswagen's Caddy Van is built in Spain by VW-owned Seat— which sells it as the Inca—and is based on the Polo/Ibizo platform. On UK sale in February, the high-cube Caddy has a payload of 550kg and a load volume of 2.9m3. Engine choices are a 1.9-litre 64hp (47kW) diesel or a 1.4-litre 60hp (44kW) petrol unit, with a turbodiesel on the way. The interior has plenty of room and is well equipped—v driver's airbag is standard. It has asymmetric rear load doors and a moulded mesh upper bulkhead.
• Ford was unable to show its latest Courier, based on the revised Fiesta, but gave details of the passenger-carrying Kombi version-1,200 have already been ordered by the Post Office. The Kombi has a payload of 500kg and a load volume of 2.5m3 with the rear seats folded—it will cost around £9,000 lex-VAT. But Ford displayed a Transit minibus fitted with threepoint seatbelts throughout, and Navigator—a Bosch system combining a CD-ROM map with satellite positioning and "dead reckoning". On sale within two years, it will initially cost around £2,500.
The Caddy is keenly priced—around £8,000 for diesel, £7,400 for petrol power—to undercut the Courier and Combo. VW's LCV marketing manager Stephen Butt says "we are serious about vans", and outlined next year's models: a facelifted Transporter (due in April) with disc brakes all round and the option of a 2.5-litre turbodiesel; the new IT (July), with engines up to 125hp in chassis from 2.8-4.6 tonnes; and the Polo Van, fitted with the latest 1.9-litre SDi (direct injection) diesel, in the spring or summer. Later, there may be a half-tonne pickup—possibly sourced from 5koda.