This T4 was the first Volkswagen van built with its engine up front instead of over the rear axle.
Median 95 hp across 76 similar cars
Lead trim: 2.0 AAC (84 PS) · up to 201 hp
Volkswagen Transporter T4 / EuroVanT4 · 1990–2004
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FactThis T4 was the first Volkswagen van built with its engine up front instead of over the rear axle.
Introduced in 1990, the T4 was the first Volkswagen van with a front-mounted, water-cooled engine, after Volkswagen had toyed with the idea since the late 1970s. It was offered as panel van, Kombi, Caravelle/Multivan and pickup on short (2,920 mm) and long (3,320 mm) wheelbases, and Westfalia-built "California" campers. A 1996 facelift added a longer nose to fit the VR6 (informally T4b, against the short-nosed T4a). The permanent four-wheel-drive Syncro used a viscous coupling as its centre differential and came with the 1.9 TD, 2.5 TDI and 2.5 petrol engines. In North America it was the EuroVan (1993 model year, "There's nothing mini about it"), with the VR6 as standard from its 1999 return to the US; Winnebago built the pop-top EuroVan Camper and the Rialta motorhome on it. Production ran to 2003–2004, second only to the T1 for length of production in its home market.
Collectors Spotted in the Volkswagen Transporter Lineage
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Trims & Figures
10 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.9 TD ABL (68 PS) | 1993–2003 | 1.9 L Inline-4 | 67 hp | 111 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.0 AAC (84 PS) | 1990–2003 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 83 hp | 117 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.4 D AAB (78 PS) | 1990–1998 | 2.4 L Inline-5 | 77 hp | 103 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.5 AAF/ACU (110 PS) | 1990–1997 | 2.5 L Inline-5 | 108 hp | 140 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.5 AET/APL/AVT (115 PS) | 1997–2003 | 2.5 L Inline-5 | 113 hp | 148 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.5 TDI ACV (102 PS) | 1995–2004 | 2.5 L Inline-5 | 101 hp | 184 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.5 TDI AHY/AXG (151 PS) | 1998–2003 | 2.5 L Inline-5 | 149 hp | 218 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.5 TDI AJT/AYY (88 PS) | 1998–2003 | 2.5 L Inline-5 | 87 hp | 144 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.8 VR6 12V AES (140 PS) | 1996–2000 | 2.8 L V6 | 138 hp | 177 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
| 2.8 VR6 24V AMV/AXK (204 PS) | 2000–2003 | 2.8 L V6 | 201 hp | 181 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
An estimate, for the 1.9 TD ABL (68 PS) trim: fuel on its EPA figure and a dated national price, upkeep on a per-mile average for the kind of car it is.
Owners’ builds
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Photographs
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Fifth Gear tested Clarkson's fastest-van-in-Britain claim by racing a T5 Sportline against the A-Team van; the Volkswagen won comfortably.
This T4 was the first Volkswagen van built with its engine up front instead of over the rear axle.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
Chevy pitched the Astro as the anti-minivan, telling buyers life was too big for one, while it rode on a rear-wheel-drive truck frame.
The IIHS rated the Astro Poor in a 1996 crash test, yet 2001–2004 Astros later had the lowest driver death rate of any US passenger vehicle.
The boxy, unglamorous Astro quietly posted one of the best real-world safety records in America: IIHS found 2001-2004 models had the fewest driver deaths per million vehicles of any passenger vehicle on US roads.
The third-generation Tourneo Connect, released in Europe in October 2021, is a rebadged fourth-generation Volkswagen Caddy, assembled by Volkswagen in Poland.
Ford beat the 25% "chicken tax" by importing the Transit Connect as a passenger van — rear windows and seats included, then stripped out and recycled once it landed in the US.
Ford spent years in federal court over the second-gen Transit Connect: in June 2019 the US won its appeal, and judges ruled the van was cargo-only — ending Ford's workaround for the 'chicken tax.'
GM sold a rebadged Nissan NV200 as the Chevy City Express for four years, then killed it in 2018, citing weak sales and the fact that its parts weren't even compatible with GM's own parts catalog.
Its name is a pun: "S-Cargo" means "Small Cargo" but sounds just like escargot — French for snail, the shape the whole van was built to resemble.