Volkswagen’s Caddy Alltrack Comes Ready for New Experiences

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• Optionally available with 4MOTION all-wheel drive technology
• Off-road feeling in all variants
• State-of-the-art technologies

Hanover/Vienna, February 2016 – From beautiful countryside to city traffic: get into the new Caddy Alltrack and forget your everyday worries. The Alltrack always offers a taste of freedom coupled with a holiday mood, optionally available with all-wheel drive 4MOTION. The ‘adventure variant’ of the Caddy launched three years ago with the designation ‘Cross’ and a short wheelbase is now getting a thoroughly worthy successor in the form of the Alltrack.

The vehicles equipped with style elements from the off-road scene are available as panel van and passenger car variants. Exclusive equipment features include 17-inch alloy wheels, black panelling on the wheel arches and sills and designer underbody protection. These features clearly set the Caddy Alltrack apart from its ‘more civilian brothers’. Its optional 4MOTION all-wheel drive and the Caddy‘s gravel road ABS (anti-lock braking system) support Alltrack drivers to cope with many dirt roads safely.

The Caddy Alltrack was presented to the audience at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt in 2015. Now it can be ordered. Building on the sharper contours and clearly defined surfaces of the new generation, the individual exterior elements specific to this model which stand out from the basic body colour are particularly pleasing features. These also include tinted windows, the specific radiator grille with three chrome fins and the door mirror housing painted in silver. Not to mention the H7 headlights and fog lights and smoked rear lights.

Exclusive logos on the front and rear, a silver anodised roof rail and the matt silver door sill plate with an Alltrack badge are further upgrades of the Caddy Alltrack. All these equipment features immediately make it clear that this robustly styled Alltrack version is an independent Caddy.

Well-balanced ergonomics and numerous stowage facilities characterise the interior of the Caddy Alltrack. The controls for heating, ventilation and air conditioning (standard for the passenger car variant) are located in the centre of the instrument panel within easy reach of driver and front-seat passenger. They have easily understood symbols, which are intuitive to operate. A heated windscreen is available as an option. Offering generous lengthwise adjustment, the front seats also provide excellent lateral support and together with the height adjustment (standard for the passenger car variant) they ensure a comfortable and healthy sitting position.

Specific covers, matching door and side panels and folding tables on the rear of the backrests are basic elements of the Alltrack. The standard equipment also includes a leather package (steering wheel, hand-brake lever, gear lever gaiter) with coloured seams. The passenger car version boasts further attractive equipment features: first and foremost the adjustable centre armrest and the chrome package comprising the rotary light switch, the mirror adjustment/window lift switch and the hand-brake lever button. Model-specific floor mats, pedals in aluminium look and cockpit decor in ‘Carbon Square Dark’ underline the robust appearance of the interior.

In addition, a wide range of driver assistance and infotainment systems come as standard in the Caddy Alltrack. These include windscreen wipers with intermittent wipe function and rain sensor, Hill Hold Assist or the Light and Sight package with automatically dimming rear-view mirror and automatic switching of the running lights which distinguishes between dipped beam and daytime running lights depending on the light conditions. It includes the ‘Leaving home’ and ‘Coming home’ function. For example, this lights up the area around the vehicle for a short time after switching off the engine – a practical feature so you can see where you put your feet after alighting from the vehicle.

In addition, the surroundings monitoring system ‘Front Assist’, the City Emergency Braking function and the Post-Collision Braking system are on board as standard features. Front Assist can warn the driver in the event of an impending collision, prepare the vehicle for emergency braking in a dangerous situation, assist the driver with braking and initiate automatic braking. If the driver fails to see an obstacle at a speed of below 30 km/h, the City Emergency Braking function automatically brakes the vehicle. At its best, it completely prevents rear-end collisions. The Post-Collision Braking system reduces or prevents further contact with obstacles after an accident. Such multiple impacts otherwise occur in almost a quarter of all accidents involving personal injury. To prevent this, the award-winning Post-Collision Braking system automatically initiates braking after a collision if the driver is not able to do so.

The optional Adaptive Cruise Control ACC, which is active in a speed range of 0 to 160 km/h (DSG) or 30 to 160 km/h (manual gearbox), has a radar sensor that measures and monitors the distance and the relative speed to vehicles driving ahead. In combination with DSG, ACC can also slow the vehicle down, for example in queues or traffic jam situations, right to a complete stop. Furthermore, in addition to side airbags, curtain airbags also come as a standard feature for the European Caddy Alltrack passenger car variants.

The main beam assistant ‘Light Assist’ and Driver Alert are available as options for the Caddy Alltrack. The latter recognises any deviations from normal driving behaviour and recommends that the driver takes a break when this appears to be necessary.

Customers can order a reversing camera in conjunction with the standard ‘Composition Colour’ radio system, the optional ‘Composition Media’ system or the ‘Discover Media’ radio/navigation system. The optional ‘Park Assist’ system enables automated parallel parking, and parking at right-angles to the carriageway – an especially practical feature for courier services.

Courier drivers have access to a cargo space with a length of 1.78 metres and capacity of 3.2 cubic metres in the Caddy Alltrack. This is accessible from the rear through the windowless tailgate and also from both sides of the vehicle through the sliding door openings that are 0.7 metres in size. On request two asymmetrically split side-hinged rear wing-doors can be ordered. The doors can be ordered with or without windows. For the window versions a wiper and washer system is available as an option, as is a heated window. The two rear doors’ opening angle is 90 degrees with door latches engaged and 180 degrees without. In all cases the maximum height of the cargo space is just under 1.26 m. Very long objects can be loaded in the Caddy Alltrack with the optional ‘Flex Seat’ on the passenger side. This seat can be folded down and partially sunk into the floor, thus facilitating a maximum ‘in-door load length’ from the front-seat passenger footwell all the way to the tailgate via the opened cargo area separator.

The Caddy Alltrack can be ordered with lots of features from the Trendline and Comfortline equipment lines with the following engine/gearbox combinations: the four efficient 2.0 l TDI diesel engines with 55 kW / 75 PS, 75 kW / 102 PS, 90 kW / 122 PS and 110 kW / 150 PS, the three low-emission 1.0 l, 1,2 l and 1.4 l TSI petrol engines with 75 kW / 102 PS (1.0 l), 62 kW / 84 PS (1.2 l) and 92 kW / 125 PS (1.4 l) and the economical 1.4 l TGI natural gas engine with 81 kW / 110 PS.

As regards gearboxes, five- and six-speed manual gearboxes and six-and seven-speed dual-clutch gearboxes are available depending on the respective engine. Furthermore, the new Caddy Alltrack can be optionally ordered with 4MOTION all-wheel drive (2.0 l TDI with 90 kW / 122 PS and 110 kW / 150 PS only). With its inherent traction advantages on- and off-road the all-wheel drive further underlines the visual appearance of the Caddy Alltrack.

Engine and gearbox are joined by a suspension system specially geared to differing loads. This includes the independent wheel suspension on the front axle and the rigid rear axle on leaf springs with load-sensitive shock absorbers, which alter their displacement characteristic depending on the spring’s level of compression. Stabilisers on both axles reduce the vehicle’s angle of roll and, along with the electromechanical power-assisted steering, contribute to the suspension functioning with great precision.

Prices for the new Caddy Alltrack in Germany start at €16,485.00 net for the panel van (€19,617.15 gross) and €20,470.00 net for the passenger vehicle (€24,359.30 gross), each with the 84 PS TSI basic engine.

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