VW MULTIVAN

If all you want to do is just hang out, nothing else really quite compares

- MATT PRIOR

MILEAGE 13,340

WHY WE'RE RUNNING IT

To see if the latest VW 'bus has all of the charms of its predecessors

To Wales and the kind of job the VW Multivan was made for: support wagon to a videographer, photographer and a couple of journalists looking to escape the sub-zero temperatures they had endured in some off-road buggies.

As is often the way this time of year, when it's light late and dark early, this was a two-day job. At yawn o'clock on day one, I was on a deadline to pick up Jack, our excellent young videographer, who I knew would be standing outside waiting with a similarly casual attitude to thick coats as most teenagers. Charm one, then: the VW has a heated windscreen, so I wasn't made late by scraping ice off it.