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More than just a pretty new face

Take a look at the Caddy Life’s new Volkswagen emblem – it’s just a small symbol of its change in design. Further across, you’ll notice the new look bumpers, new rear lights and new headlights that reflect the Volkswagen family look. To highlight its sharp design, the Maxi Life comes with chrome detailing and colour-coded bumpers, mirrors and door handles.

Accommodating size

Need more room in your people mover? No worries. The Caddy Life comes as a 5-seat or optional 7-seat cabin, with bench seats that can be split, double-folded and removed for flexibility. Extra storage compartments have also been installed above the windscreen and in the foot wells behind the front seats. Then there’s the large capacity glovebox, which is great for keeping valuables and small items out of sight.

You can fit more life into Caddy Life

This has to be the most versatile compact people mover in the world. Before your very eyes, the five seat Caddy Life (with seven seats an option) can transform into a variety of vehicles depending on what’s required.The three seats in the back are extremely comfortable and aren’t just designed for kids. Even the tallest of adults will feel right at home thanks to generous head and leg room. These rear seats are foldable and can even be removed entirely (a straightforward operation thanks to the dual sliding door setup that provides easy access to the cabin).

With all seats out, there’s an amazing 3.2m3 back there for larger luggage and all the bulky items that add fun to your life – surfboards, bicycles, golf clubs, you name it. Even with all the seats in place, there’s plenty of room for luggage, and the multitude of handy storage compartments within the cabin can fit all sorts of odds and ends.

But it’s the discipline of people moving where Caddy Life excels. Thanks to brilliant German design, meticulous construction and the long list of safety inclusions, Caddy Life ensures the people you’re moving around are looked after in every respect.

Safety comes as standard

To help protect you and your passengers, the Caddy Life comes as standard with integrated passive and active safety systems. Daytime running lights help to maintain visibility on the road as well as adaptive lighting (shown left). Top-of-category driver assistance systems – such as Electronic Stabilisation Program, ABS, EDL, ASR and MSR (for engine-drag torque control) – help you handle critical situations. And should an accident occur, dual front airbags (and head/thorax airbags in the Maxi Life) help to protect you and your passengers.

Power and efficiency

With the Caddy Life’s range of state-of-the-art TDI engines, you’ll enjoy strong performance, reduced fuel consumption, and low CO2 emissions. Powered by high-pressure direct-injection Common Rail technology, these new diesel engines deliver enhanced efficiency and the quieter on-road comfort that you’d expect from a passenger car. Driving characteristics have also been optimised with the new electro-mechanical power steering system, adjusting the Caddy Life’s steering assistance as you increase speed.

The new TDI250 (common-rail) turbo diesel is available with either a standard five-speed manual or a seven-speed DSG transmission. This engine develop 250Nm of torque and achieves staggering fuel efficiencies of 5.8L/100km, emitting from just 152g/km of CO2.

Since it develops more torque, the TDI320 is offered with a six-speed DSG as standard. The engine itself generates 320Nm of torque and still achieves incredible fuel efficiencies of just 6.5L/100km while emitting 171g/km of CO2 emissions. 

Direct Shift Gearbox

This clever gearbox offers the sporty driving dynamics of a manual transmission, with the comfort of an automatic. How? When it changes gears, it switches them in just a few hundredths of a second – so smooth it’s virtually unnoticeable. It also offers a sports mode and manual setting, all-in-all giving a lower fuel consumption, fewer emissions, and a quieter ride.