doncarlyon
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Excellent, thankyou.
I feel that a much better place for the Off - Road Controls than the T6 where one has to learn where they are and remeber against the rest of the aircraft clutter!
Relatively new to T6 ownership, I picked up a T6 LWB T32 150 Manual 4Motion in October last year.
You can prise this thing from my cold dead hands.
My mum has a T32 SWB FWD, and my dad a T28 LWB. I’ve driven both and they’re great… but I’ve found the engine braking very unsettling, making you feel like you’re going to leapfrog over the front axle. In my 4Mo, it’s more balanced… closer to RWD, but not like pulling a parachute - how it felt on my BMW, or on a motorbike… something in the middle. Funny that.
When pushing on around Surrey/Sussex A/B roads, I love that you can stick your foot in mid corner and pull yourself out.
Equally, I love how planted and settled it feels when cruising at lazy speeds. It does waft along nicely.
Initially I was trying to avoid getting a 4Mo, as I wanted to be able to cover miles without a fuel economy penalty, but as far as I can see… there isn’t one.
I do mostly A/B roads, with some minimal motorway miles. I’ve just got out of a mapped 330d Manual, and I’ve grown accustomed to ‘making progress’, so I imagine one could get better MPG than me, but I struggle to get less than 39mpg average for a tank. Admittedly that is for an empty van as it stands, but it’s exactly the same as my mums van on the same journey - a T32 150bhp SWB T6 full camper. I can’t imagine I’ll lose tonnes when I convert.
You can prise this thing from my cold dead hands.
My mum has a T32 SWB FWD, and my dad a T28 LWB. I’ve driven both and they’re great… but I’ve found the engine braking very unsettling, making you feel like you’re going to leapfrog over the front axle. In my 4Mo, it’s more balanced… closer to RWD, but not like pulling a parachute - how it felt on my BMW, or on a motorbike… something in the middle. Funny that.
When pushing on around Surrey/Sussex A/B roads, I love that you can stick your foot in mid corner and pull yourself out.
Equally, I love how planted and settled it feels when cruising at lazy speeds. It does waft along nicely.
Initially I was trying to avoid getting a 4Mo, as I wanted to be able to cover miles without a fuel economy penalty, but as far as I can see… there isn’t one.
I do mostly A/B roads, with some minimal motorway miles. I’ve just got out of a mapped 330d Manual, and I’ve grown accustomed to ‘making progress’, so I imagine one could get better MPG than me, but I struggle to get less than 39mpg average for a tank. Admittedly that is for an empty van as it stands, but it’s exactly the same as my mums van on the same journey - a T32 150bhp SWB T6 full camper. I can’t imagine I’ll lose tonnes when I convert.
I'm a fan of 4Motion, my T6 is 4Motion, but there simply has to be a fuel penalty, even if you haven't noticed it.
The 4Motion van weighs more than 200KG more than an otherwise identical 2WD T6.
You cannot move that extra 200KG around without burning more fuel, it's fundamentally impossible.
For my use a 4Motion is almost essential, but if I lived and used my van in an urban area, I wouldn't have wanted 4Motion.
Horses for courses!
Oh absolutely, it’s basic physics. My point was simply that the fuel economy penalty really isn’t that bad.
For my use case, I don’t need 4Motion, as it’s only going to see road, wet grassy campsites and the odd fire road. However, dynamically I much prefer it to a FWD van.
Initially I was looking for a FWD van, it’s just that the right one came up, and it happened to be 4Mo.
