[QUOTE= VW Coaching via google translation]In seven months arose from a used Caddy Life, built in 2004 in Wolfsburg a very special car: The Caddy Speed. The sporty white-blue eye-catcher was due to the general assembly of Volkswagen in Hamburg and the subsequent vehicle exhibition.

Not only for the visitors, including in the press was the Caddy speed with great interest: autobild.de reported in its tuning part on 30 April about IMAGE brought on 7 May a short article in the nationwide total output.

With the Caddy Speed put five vehicle mechatronics trainees by Volkswagen under the guidance of their trainer Sascha Spitzer their ideas by a sportier Caddy.

For special projects such as the vehicle speed Caddy plan the trainees all the steps from beginning to end and are also responsible for implementing them. At the end of something other then a Caddy: with 2.0 litre FSI turbo engine with 200 hp and direct transmission, tiefergelegt (8 cm rear, front 6 cm), 19-inch wheels, sport exhaust system, xenon headlamps, a bodykit and a Dackkantenspoiler thread and a chassis with a flip kit. Front GTI seats were built and how the rear seat with a blue leather and Alcantara related. In addition to the steering wheel is also the brakes, R32. To sport with the sports car, has a retractable rear cargo area with up to 80 kg load and a holder for two bicycles (the front wheels must be removed from the vessel) built.

It was important to the trainees also a special multimedia equipment of the vehicle. The Car PC with navigation, radio and DVD player is an external, pull-out keyboard (in the glove compartment housed) or by touch screen to operate. For passengers in the funds they also installed a system on other unanhängigen DVD player. Even the appearance of the striking single piece was clearly changed: The Caddy was painted with a blue and black Folienbeklebung.

Were involved in the project: The trainers Sascha Spitzer and the car – mechatronics-trainees Paylos Apostolidis, Timo Bertram, Philipp Biek, Dominik Keuneke and Tim Schneider.

Among other business groups supported many tuning and car accessories companies – twenty – the project: ABT, ACR, Audi Quattro GmbH, Blaupunkt, BN pipes GmbH, Bosch, Carpc, Car Trim, CM Design, Continental, Falk, Goodyear, IN Tuning, KW GmbH, Philips, Sitech GmbH, Sortimo, Traganti, Volkswagen Individual, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.[/QUOTE]

Images from autobild & VW Coaching GmbH.

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One of the more unusual driver-car pairings in Volkswagen Racing’s history took place in May at Goodwood circuit.  Red Bull Racing’s David Coulthard took the chance to spend a day in a Volkswagen Caddy TDI racer – a front-drive 260bhp turbodiesel van that  we have run in the Volkswagen Racing Cup for the past 4 years. About as far removed from an F1 car as you can imagine… and the bemused look on his face when he peeled into the pits after a few laps said it all.

David’s reaction after his first drive: ‘Well… that was interesting! I don’t know why I bothered with Formula 1 for all those years – diesel vans are obviously where it’s at! I went into the first corner, locked up the rear wheels and started looking for the best place to crash. But seriously, it’s a little slower than I’m used to, but having a go in this Caddy is great fun.  It’s ten years since I’ve driven a manual car!

The day was filmed by the BBC, and Fifth Gear’s Tiff Needell turned up to have a go in the Caddy – in a race with David, which will be shown in the next series of Channel 5’s motoring programme.

Coulthard is not the first motorsport celebrity to drive the Caddy TDI, as ex-British Touring Car Champion Jason Plato raced the van at Brands Hatch in 2004.

source volkswagen-racing.co.uk

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Caddy Typ 2K (2005-present)

In late 2003 at the RAI Commercial Vehicle Show in Amsterdam, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles debuted the Typ 2K Caddy panel van.

The Typ 2K shares 50% of its modules with the Volkswagen Golf Mk5 and Volkswagen Touran. The new model Caddy has a more aerodynamic design, the angle of the windscreen and A-pillar is more horizontal, this makes the dashboard big and the bonnet (hood) small.

The full Caddy line-up varies from a Panel Van, Window Panel Van, Kombi (spartan seven-seat version), Caddy Life (7-seat family version), and a Camping version called the Caddy Tramper or Caddy Life Camper.

Caddy Panel Van

The Caddy Panel grew in size over the Caddy Typ 9K, it measures in length 4405 mm, width 1802 mm, height 1833 mm, wheelbase 2682 mm, has a 750 kg payload, and a loading volume of 3.2 m³.

The current shape Typ 2K Caddy for sale now in Europe since 2004 is a leisure activity vehicle with Volkswagen Golf Mk5 front suspension.

It resembles the compact MPV Touran, and is assembled at the Poznań factory in Poland, and in Changchun, China for FAW Volkswagen.

Caddy Life

The Caddy Life, a seven seat passenger orientated People Mover, debuted at the 2004 Frankfurt Show. It comes with twin sliding doors and a 608 kg payload.

Caddy Life has a flexible seating system. The two rear bench seat rows can be taken out of the vehicle altogether to give the vehicle 2850 litres of cargo room; if that’s not enough the Caddy Life has a 1500 kg towing capacity.

In 2005, a Special Edition Caddy Life Colour Concept with two distinctive colours Red Spice and Ravenna Blue was released with upholstery fabrics, floor mats and a variety of other elements on the dash panel in the same colour as the exterior body, and a leather trimmed steering wheel, gear and handbrake lever.^[4]

Caddy Life Tramper (Camper)

Based on the Caddy Life the Tramper or Camper (Australia) package comes with two seats and a table, a fold out awning that is packaged within the rear tailgate, a bed that is made by folding down the seats measures 1.10 m x 2.0 m, also curtains are standard for privacy, options include a 7 litre cool box.

Caddy Maxi and Caddy Maxi Life

Debuting at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles presented the Caddy Maxi Life the people mover version of the Maxi range.

The Caddy Maxi range carried over all of the Caddy engine and debuted for the first time the 2.0L TDI engine producing 103 kW/140 PS.^[5]

The Caddy Maxi family is 470 mm longer version of the Caddy with 4.2 m³ loading space, this is due to extensions of the wheelbase which measures 3002 mm an extended, rear overhang now 151 mm, plus the growth between the sliding doors and the rear axle now at 319 mm and payload is up to 800 kg to 810 kg on commercial versions.

The Caddy Maxi Tramper the camping version if the Caddy Maxi debuted at the 2008 AMI Leipzig Motor Show along with the Caddy Maxi EcoFuel Study.

Caddy in Australia

Since its introduction in the Australian market in 2005, the Caddy range has taken the market lead for Small Van market.

Even with the more premium pricing over its competition, buyers still pay more for the TDI and DSG transmission options.^[6]

In 2007, Caddy almost had 42% of the Small Van market share.^[7]

Engines

• 1.4 16V – 75 PS (74 hp/55 kW) – 126 N·m (93 lb·ft) (petrol) (discontinued)
• 1.4 16V – 80 PS (79 hp/59 kW) – 132 N·m (97 lb·ft) (petrol)
• 1.6 8V – 102 PS (101 hp/75 kW) – 148 N·m (109 lb·ft) (petrol)
• 2.0 EcoFuel – 109 PS (108 hp/80 kW) – 160 N·m (118 lb·ft) (CNG)
• 1.9 TDI – 75 PS (74 hp/55 kW) – 210 N·m (155 lb·ft) (diesel)
• 1.9 TDI – 105 PS (104 hp/77 kW) – 250 N·m (184 lb·ft) (diesel)
• 2.0 SDI – 69 PS (68 hp/51 kW) – 140 N·m (103 lb·ft) (diesel) (only for panel van)
• 2.0 TDI – 140 PS (138 hp/103 kW) – 320 N·m (236 lb·ft) (diesel)

all info courtasy of wikipedia

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