TECH SPEC
Gross vehicle weight (kg): 3,500
Power (bhp/rpm): 130/3,600
Torque (lb-ft/rpm): 236/1,800
Load volume (cu m): 8.0
Payload (kg): 1,640
Load length (mm): 2,670
Load width (mm): 1,870
Load height (mm): 1,662
Comb fuel economy (mpg): 44.1
CO2 emission (g/km): 164
Price as tested (ex-VAT): £35,613
WHAT’S HOT
- Let start with the cab. The Ducato is much quieter and smoother under way than its predecessor and we give the driver’s seat 10 out of 10. It’s really comfortable with loads of side, back and lumbar support. I undertook a six-hour journey during our test week and emerged fresh as a spring lamb at the end (well, fresh as a 62-year-old lamb anyway!)
- Coffee is one of my big joys in life so the arrival of not one but three coffee cup holders was very welcome. We had always moaned like crazy about there not being any in the old Ducato.
- In addition to a superb seat, there’s a little pull-down desk in the back of the middle seat and a pop-up clip for A4 documents on top of the dash. Together with a USB port (and the aforementioned coffee cup holders), the Ducato makes a natty little office on wheels if you have the need for one.
- What a sweet engine the MultiJet is. It’s quiet and refined under way and offers so much torque that it will pull away happily in second gear and tootles along nicely in sixth at 30mph.
- If the official figures are to be believed, the 130bhp variant will return just over 44mpg on the combined cycle. Our test model, rather unusually, had a half-load of sand on board when it arrived and although the Ducato loped along nicely with no skittishness, the sand played havoc with our own fuel test figures (official figures, of course, are calibrated with the van empty). At the end of the week we still managed just under 40mpg, which ain’t bad in anyone’s books for a van of this size.
The new Ducato dash will receive some well earned attention
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